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The Sage DM

A new blog has appeared here: https://thesagedm.blogspot.com It's good to see someone else rejoining the fantasy role-playing game world via the blogosphere. I know of Mike via his war-games blog, so I thought I should show some sort of support.

Scourge of the Slave Lords IX: Infiltrating Suderham

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I had no intention of railroading the players when I ran this part of the campaign. A map of the deep caverns below the volcanic island on which sits the Slave Lords' city is included in the module, and the idea there is that the players will be captured, thrown into the cave system, and left to rot, albeit with a little bit of help from the Slave Lord who supposedly led them here as a subtle ploy in his machinations to take over the organisation's council completely. This wouldn't sit well with players like mine, especially given how I have integrated it into my Stormbringer  campaign, but that is not to say the caverns would not come in handy... Campaign narrative Dramatis Personae: Sir Blanque (Filkarian noble of mer-people extraction)                                 Marion (Daughter of the Nihrain; likes daggers and carries the Runestaff)                                 Destiny (Menastrai sorceress) The three adventurers emerge in the pre-dawn light from the dan