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 Post subject: Re: Blessed Lands Book is Shipping!
PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 9:04 pm 
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Hmm Undead things wanting to kill me...isn't that part and parcel of what Beltinian Exorcists do? I mean it was on the job application. :)

I could see clearing a Citadel of my goddess of things that should not be there to be the highlight of my career. Just as I'm sure your Haakon would love to reclaim the "lost" Citadel of Nier. Not to mention finding out what happened to a certain someone. ;)

Now just to be clear, Cody and I are engaged in some mild verbal jabs at each other and I'm not taking this too seriously. But still since we do we take the safe route in this game? Aren't heroes? And yeah sometimes we do stupid stuff, but that's all part of the game. :D

For all I know the twin towers are Henry's version of Tegel Manor (let's see who gets that reference). My party never made it past the entrance as I recall. :(

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 Post subject: Re: Blessed Lands Book is Shipping!
PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 10:19 pm 
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Had to do a web-search, but "Designed by generations of mad wizards and insane geniuses..." isn't an encouraging start to the blurb.

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 Post subject: Re: Blessed Lands Book is Shipping!
PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 10:49 pm 
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Yeah it's a Judges Guild product. I believe it may predate the more famous TSR Tomb of Horrors. Back in the late 70s early 80s as I recall. Old school D&D. :)

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 Post subject: Re: Blessed Lands Book is Shipping!
PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 10:52 pm 

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Hello Michael,

Tegal Manor, one of the deadliest dungeons I'd ever entered was firmly in mind when I wrote about the Twin Citadels of Beltine and Neroth. I got as far as the Foyer when the party was attacked by a dwarf vampire, if memory serves. At 4th level, my PC fled in terror. Never been back.

However, I wouldn't attempt to capture the horror of the Twin Citadels in a mere 4 hour adventure. It deserves a full treatment that can only be afforded by a print adventure.

Someday, perhaps.

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 12, 2016 10:39 am 
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LOL we got trashed in the foyer as well. Good times if scary ones. :) And I agree that a Citadel could never be truly done in a four hour slot. Some things just don't fit that format.

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 Post subject: Re: Blessed Lands Book is Shipping!
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PCIHenry wrote:
However, I wouldn't attempt to capture the horror of the Twin Citadels in a mere 4 hour adventure. It deserves a full treatment that can only be afforded by a print adventure.

Someday, perhaps.


Any chance of getting some of these super-events like the Twin Citadels or other potentially secrets-revealing events explored in special events at Arcanicon over the next few years? It seems that is a perfect venue as it is a campaign specific event where campaign authors (i.e. Henry) can work closely with the production of the event relatively easily, but it isn't limited to needing to be a "Hardpoint" of the current campaign. Additionally, all attendees are Arcanis specialists, and will dig the discoveries.

I have absolutely loved the events at Arcanicon, and the Vault of Larissa has been my favorite special event of the campaign to date, but they all seem to be centered around something we've never heard of before it happens/is discovered, and don't reveal much about the world (or maybe they do and I just haven't learned it - I have the sneaking suspicion that was the case with at least the Vault). I think it would be great for the event to be something that when it's announced, everyone goes, "we're doing that!?!?!?" Almost any of the non-pacified Citadels, City of Golems, lost dwarven enclaves, other continents, valley of Zhun, City of monkeys, etc. There are sooooo many cool places we know of that I suspect need significantly more than a 4-hour module to explore. I was just wondering if we could hit those at an event. It seems more likely we would get to see them if they came out in that fashion, since waiting for so many places to come out as published modules may take forever. (or maybe just seem like it to us waiting. :)

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