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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wraithdrit" data-source="post: 1092955" data-attributes="member: 10820">Thank you much! I normally stay FAR away from published adventures. This time I decided to give it a go, but could not leave well enough alone. I also knew if I threw 4 complete strangers into this thing they would come out the other end as hamburger, so I figured I better give em some adventuring time before hand to gel as a group. So I came up with this prologue. Its actually been a very organic process where things and come together really well, though not without a few sessions of me banging my head on a wall to try and pull various pieces together. But then, thats why I love writing and DMing (my two passions).Good! I wanted this story hour to read like a novel more than a log of a game. Sure, it IS a game log, but I wanted to blur the lines and make people identify with more than the core group. Plus it gave me the chance to let my players live in a world where things happen outside of their adventure and they get to know about it out of character, but then play only what they know.I don't keep my player's character sheets, thus I don't post them, but I might in the future. The timeline went like this.Will's player had to bow out just after Durgaden and Mytrym's death due to work reasons. We are hoping he can rejoin in November.Mytrym was a fifth player we added since we had some trouble keeping all four players around all the time.Drena was the first character of the person who took Will's player's slot. Navarr was an NPC (not a cohort) that was attached to Drena. It was failed NPC in my opinion. He was regularly useless in combat and I just never really got into playing him.Around the same time Navarr was slain, we switched to 3.5. Drena's player was pretty torced about the changes to Spell Focus, and to many favorite spells, so took me up on a blanket offer to all players to be able to bring in new characters at that point with no penalty since there were some major rules changes in 3.5. I didn't want anyone STUCK with a character they did not like anymore.Naria is NOT in the module. She is actually Mytrym's cohort. He had Leadership the whole time, but I was waiting for a good opportunity to bring in another follower of Eilistrae.You will find as we go forward that MANY things in the module are going to be very different from how it was published. Since I began by weaving in the outside stories of the Zhentarim and the Shadovar and the Demonbloods, I can't help but continue to lace them through. Plus it gives me ample opportunity to cut out the parts of the module that I just scratched my head at.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Thanks for the compliments and I hope you continue to enjoy the read. Expect an update sometime today. Monday night's game was nonstop action!</blockquote>

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