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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 7723509" data-attributes="member: 45197"><p>Hiya!</p><p></p><p>Only problem I have with this...and, honestly, I thought I was going to *hate* it...is the "hook";<em>...now, nobody can be returned from the dead!</em> If that wasn't the hook, I'd be all over this AP! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> I also wonder how people in campaigns where raise/resurrection magic isn't available. Could make for interesting in-game conversations.</p><p></p><p><strong>NPC Cleric</strong>: You have to help! I can't raise anyone from the dead!</p><p><strong>PC</strong>: Uh, that's because nobody can raise the dead...you sure you're a cleric?</p><p><strong>NPC Cleric</strong>: No! I mean, yes! I am a cleric, but no, you're wrong! I have the prayers and rituals to Raise Dead and bring someone back to life....but I tried it four times and it's not working!</p><p><strong>PC</strong>: ...rrriiiiiiggghttttt....</p><p><strong>NPC Cleric</strong>: Help! Go investigate for us!</p><p><strong>PC</strong>: Uh...how much you paying?</p><p><strong>NPC Cleric</strong>: 5000gp to you group.</p><p><strong>PC</strong>: Sold! Half up front?</p><p><em>(PC's walk away smiling to themselves thinking 'What a nutbar...a nutbar with money at least...')</em></p><p></p><p>Why do I have a problem with that? Er...people don't get raised from the dead or resurrected in 99.9% of my games (even when we play high level; with we only do/did back in 3.5e or 2e...nobody really ever go to high level in our 1e/Hackmaster 4th campaigns, whowuddathunkit?).</p><p></p><p>Putting that aside, I still have a problem with not being able to cheat death be some sort of "bad thing". IMHO, I've always played that Death gods in my campaigns hate two things the most; undead and resurrection-type magic. Makes no sense otherwise. Always hated seeing adventures where the PC's go into a death-gods temple...and it's guarded/infested with undead! To me, it's the same thing as having the PC's go into a life-god's temple...and it's guarded/infested with undead.</p><p></p><p>So, uh, yeah. Other than the key premiss (well, and it being specifically set in FR), cool. Too bad that the key premiss is pretty much going to need to be tossed out and something else put in it's place...which basically means I'd be better off writing my own adventure. Ahh well...par for the course with WotC AP's I guess. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> (for me anyway, ymmv)</p><p></p><p>Hmmmm....actually, could be an interesting story if the PC's are trying to <em>HELP </em>Acererak. I wonder if there are enough "good guys" trying to stop/oppose/reverse the whole "people can't be brought back to life" thing. I can see the PC's sort of infiltrating the so-called "Good guys" ranks and sabotaging their efforts.</p><p></p><p>(and it's ACER-er-Rak...the middle "er" is like a drawn-out "ER" from ACER...kinda like the "sp" from "Wasps").</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pming, post: 7723509, member: 45197"] Hiya! Only problem I have with this...and, honestly, I thought I was going to *hate* it...is the "hook";[I]...now, nobody can be returned from the dead![/I] If that wasn't the hook, I'd be all over this AP! :) I also wonder how people in campaigns where raise/resurrection magic isn't available. Could make for interesting in-game conversations. [B]NPC Cleric[/B]: You have to help! I can't raise anyone from the dead! [B]PC[/B]: Uh, that's because nobody can raise the dead...you sure you're a cleric? [B]NPC Cleric[/B]: No! I mean, yes! I am a cleric, but no, you're wrong! I have the prayers and rituals to Raise Dead and bring someone back to life....but I tried it four times and it's not working! [B]PC[/B]: ...rrriiiiiiggghttttt.... [B]NPC Cleric[/B]: Help! Go investigate for us! [B]PC[/B]: Uh...how much you paying? [B]NPC Cleric[/B]: 5000gp to you group. [B]PC[/B]: Sold! Half up front? [I](PC's walk away smiling to themselves thinking 'What a nutbar...a nutbar with money at least...')[/I] Why do I have a problem with that? Er...people don't get raised from the dead or resurrected in 99.9% of my games (even when we play high level; with we only do/did back in 3.5e or 2e...nobody really ever go to high level in our 1e/Hackmaster 4th campaigns, whowuddathunkit?). Putting that aside, I still have a problem with not being able to cheat death be some sort of "bad thing". IMHO, I've always played that Death gods in my campaigns hate two things the most; undead and resurrection-type magic. Makes no sense otherwise. Always hated seeing adventures where the PC's go into a death-gods temple...and it's guarded/infested with undead! To me, it's the same thing as having the PC's go into a life-god's temple...and it's guarded/infested with undead. So, uh, yeah. Other than the key premiss (well, and it being specifically set in FR), cool. Too bad that the key premiss is pretty much going to need to be tossed out and something else put in it's place...which basically means I'd be better off writing my own adventure. Ahh well...par for the course with WotC AP's I guess. :( (for me anyway, ymmv) Hmmmm....actually, could be an interesting story if the PC's are trying to [I]HELP [/I]Acererak. I wonder if there are enough "good guys" trying to stop/oppose/reverse the whole "people can't be brought back to life" thing. I can see the PC's sort of infiltrating the so-called "Good guys" ranks and sabotaging their efforts. (and it's ACER-er-Rak...the middle "er" is like a drawn-out "ER" from ACER...kinda like the "sp" from "Wasps"). [/QUOTE]
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