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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jim pinto" data-source="post: 1746970" data-attributes="member: 17619">wow.you said a mouth full.let me tackle this, point by pointi'm being a little incredulous, if nothing else, because i'm lettingyou see into my psyche. 95% of the pre-design of this book cameout of my head and helped to structure HOW we would tackle it.making it modular, placing the monsters, designing the template foreach Room, etc.the introduction (with a few key exceptions) was written BEFOREa single writer was hired.during the creation process we tried to stay as close to our designprinciples as we could. but good ideas, like Room N223 that developduring the 11th hour of editing, can't be shuffled away simply becausethe DM won't or can't read ahead to see what the dungeon has to offer.yes, i'm sorry i didn't do a better job of tying that room to the WHOLEof the dungeon. it was unlikely during design that the PCs would findit. but i kept thinking of all those really bad RPGA puzzles at conventionsthat never made sense, when i made it, and i thought.... here's an instancewhere if people are paying attention to the clues in this room, they'll realizethat something is afoot and these scrolls are not what they appear to be.sadly, this too is illogical and as much as i like the room, its not ascool now in print as it was when i dreamed it up.but...at the end of the day, if the DM doesn't like the puzzle i've presented,he's free to ignore it.as i stated, my original concept was for the book to be modular.however, if the DM wants to surprise the PCs with well-placedforeshadowing, it wouldn't be a bad idea to read 1 or 2 regionsahead. foreshadowing needs to be tailored to the style of thegroup and we really can't do that for you ahead of time.a fortune teller that says, "Agar will die at the hands of his own death."is great if the DM can assure the PCs will enter a room with a mirrorof opposition. AEG, however, can't make sure that happens withouta really big hammer.the real problem is that there are 5 unique paths through the dungeonand unless the PCs hit EVERY room, it won't matter what's in RoomN223 and all those clues have gone to waste.luckily, i'm online every day and i hope i can guide people to somereally, really cool adventures .... with a little help from the DMs, i guess.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />thanks for the kind words, twofallsi hope your game goes well</blockquote>

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