We were killed about a half a year ago and now I am wondering: Was this a "dungeon" adventure? We attacked a brothel/bordello in a town called skuttlecup or something...and it seemed that everyone inside of it were polymorphed Hydras...and we couldn't get out, so we died...because a lot of Yuan-ti's kept firing polymorph at us...
Does this ring any bell?
Regards
Auryn
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We were killed about a half a year ago and now I am wondering: Was this a "dungeon" adventure? We attacked a brothel/bordello in a town called skuttlecup or something...and it seemed that everyone inside of it were polymorphed Hydras...and we couldn't get out, so we died...because a lot of Yuan-ti's kept firing polymorph at us...
Does this ring any bell?
Regards
Auryn
Yeah, Scuttlecove. End of 2002.
Slave traders took the party by surprise after they dealt with the yuan-ti of the Porphiry House (on a tip from Kedward Bone), and shangaied them to some dimension-travelling night hags.
Almost a TPK, but fun.
Isn't it funny that while "The Porphyry House Horror" was an adventure to introduce material from "The Book of Vile Darkness", DUNGEON never did an adventure (to my knowledge) to introduce material from "The Book of Exalted Deeds". The same could be said for that controversial issue of DRAGON that did the same thing. There was no exalted issue of DRAGON compiled either.
Chief Creative Officer, Publisher
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I don't know that it's "funny," per se. We did the Vile Darkness issues for two reasons:
1. Sales
2. Sales
The whole "sealed section" business was basically a marketing ploy. As it happens, I think the material published in those issues of Dragon and Dungeon was some of the finest of the era, but the quality of the material was incidental to the gimmick nature of running a sealed section and making a big deal out of "vile" content.
It's possible that the kerfuffle surrounding those issues made the editors at the time less interested in doing an "Exalted" book (with special SEALED SECTION!!!). Let's not forget that, about two months after 9/11/01, no less a figure than Tracy Hickman called the Dragon staff "terrorists" for publishing those issues. It was a heady time.
Plus, I mean come on, good guys are lame. That's why it's the DM's job to kill them.
--Erik Mona
Editor-in-Chief
Dragon & Dungeon
Beautifully put Eric. I was just playing devil's advocate, and have never had a problem with any of your editorial decisions. In one way its a shame though, since a well crafted adventure or series of articles on the material presented in the book would have been nice. I suppose its just the same with people being upset that the new core classes won't get coverage in class acts.
Now that's great news, and sure to please DRAGON readers everywhere (well, almost). Actually, I think that some of the new core classes (warlock, scout, etc.) will become so popular with roleplayers that they will make it into the 4th Edition Players Handbook :)
I also find that the "good" material in D&D is... well, it's lame. :-? It's just not very exciting. The evil material is pretty easy to understand, it's stuff out of a horror movie, everyone gets it... But it seems like less effort went into making really cool "good" material. The evil stuff fired up the imagination, the good stuff just made me yawn.