Secondary Success Conditions: Room for Community Feedback?


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Is there any possibility that we could consider some options for the Secondary Success Condition document? Either for release this summer when the season changes, or maybe even next summer? Many of them make perfect sense, but in my opinion, there are a few that don't necessarily suit the overall "further the goals of the Society" theme that's supposed to clue us in, even though there are other, more obvious things that could be used instead.

An example of one I would bring up would be

Shades of Ice II: Exiles of Winter:
It seems to me that the secondary success condition, killing the dragon, doesn't actually accomplish anything for the Society. The other door is sealed beyond the capacity of any in-tier party to handle, and the dragon is bound to that room (although those magics are also beyond the party's capacity to even recognize, apparently). So even if that door is used in another scenario (is it?), whatever party is being sent to investigate it could handle that dragon a lot easier than the low-level characters running through Shades of Ice.

Right outside that room, though, is a bunch of slaves who need to be snuck out of the city and taken home. You only need to save one of them to make your primary mission, though. Since saving them all would bring goodwill to the Society, wouldn't that make a more logical secondary success mission? That is, in fact, the only reason my CN Naga Aspirant took the time to do so--it seemed like something the Society would want him to do. And while I don't begrudge that RP moment by any stretch, I was really surprised when I found that because we decided the dragon wasn't worth the effort (since it was protecting something we couldn't use anyway) we weren't getting the second prestige ... especially when I found out there was already a separate boon for killing the dragon.

There have been some others, though none spring directly to mind. I'm not trying to just complain about secondary missions I don't like--it just seems that this is something that might benefit from live feedback, now that we're actually playing through these, on the lookout for our secondary missions.

Basically, I'm asking if the document has potential for revision, or if it's locked in as is.

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