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Twitter Facebook. Each player sets up their area in a different way; some prefer to stand the whole time, others never get up. By the time you've spent a few hundred hours together over 9 months, you know everyone's mannerisms.

We have fun but we also have to win to continue the path--don't let down the team. He sometimes lives with a module's minis in front of him for weeks before a playthrough. It has been dubbed 'The Lair,' and has long been the creative and command center of the association.

Initially, it also doubled as our play space, and the room has seen easily hundreds of hours of campaigns. Directives to the Order are issued from this chamber, the fates of characters decided, and ideas conceived to push our next gaming endeavor. During our current projects, if something happens that separates your character from the group--or if the GM just needs to speak to you alone--it will likely be in this room.

Above: The Lair has several different lighting effects possible, for whatever our GM is feeling as he is working on material for the Order. Below: The closet you see here contains a trove of RPG material dating back to They can just walk north from the barricade into B11, grab the 3 dead doppelganger bodies there removing any evidence that the guards killed them , and drag them back to the barricade.

You might want to make it a bit harder on them by having York question them at the barricade about how they got those bodies so fast, etc. I confirmed this when speaking with author Wesley Schneider at GenCon With STR 8, her light load is 26lbs.

What better way to master its halls and know it better than your frightened PCs, than to spend some serious time drawing it? Imagine yourself completely immersed in the map for hours, learning every turn, each collapsed wall, and walking the paths of its courtyards.

While drawing it you'll have time to plan where doppelgangers might hide after escaping, or just where the unicorn will first appear.

Better yet: Think of the looks on your players' faces when they see what you've done for them. Unlike the maps I presented for Giantslayer, this one is a lot more feasible for the GM who is new to drawing their own maps, as it can be done on a single Chessex Mondomat with the slight addition of a side-grid of gaming paper or another Chessex mat.

To make your task easier, I placed a map procedure booklet in our Dropbox, which should help any prospective GMs learn some of the steps involved in producing a map like this. Clear some time, grab some markers, and go for it! I'm questioning my sanity Your party should get one last opportunity for ranged attacks even after they get some melee chances on round one when the grapple is initiated. When the Nightgaunt uses a standard action to maintain the grapple, it can then move at its fly speed of 40ft feature of Nightgaunt ; however, upward flight is done at half speed, so that should leave it at elevation 20ft or at best 25ft in the air.

The Nightgaunt's AC will be lower because it is grappling, so even thrown daggers at -4 for range could still land home, while arrows and crossbows should tag with efficiency--no time to stow weapons here, veteran PCs will know to drop what is in their hands, draw, and fire. If any of these ranged attacks hit, the Nightgaunt has to make a Fly check at DC 10 or lose 10ft. Higher than 60ft and that's most likely all she wrote. Moreover, the Nightgaunt's light load according to its strength is lbs or less.

If the 'frailest-looking character' is over lbs, then the Nightgaunt's speed is reduced to only 15ft. One last thing to consider though, is what might break the fall.

There are a good number of trees in the courtyard, so perhaps they might reduce falling damage. Maybe assign sections of the courtyard to a d12 roll cause d12s are awesome and that is where the damaged Nightgaunt decides to drop the character. Very resourceful players with enough hp to take a big hit might even spread out, look up at the fog around them, and ready an action to run under a falling character to try and break their fall somewhat. These same characters might instead opt to ready a channel energy or healing spell in the case that they are close enough to the dropping PC to reach out and interrupt the fall with a boost to hp probably what the Nightgaunt did on initial hit.

Every point counts. Normally a monster can move itself and another creature at half its speed with a standard action grapple rules, CRB. Carrying capacity always applies here, so there is a limit to how big of a creature you can move very far in a grapple, with the best being half your speed. The Nightgaunt's ability lets it move at full speed, which is This is reduced by encumbrance if necessary but maybe not if your character is less than lbs , and also reduced by half for upwards flight.

So a Nightgaunt that grabs a lb human would move only 15ft up and away from the party on the next turn. Still, I think that in a decent number of cases, PC death may occur here.

What better way to go out than as the module cover depicts? By this point in the module, my players were itching to learn anything at all about themselves, no matter how insignificant the details.

Taking the time to produce a record sheet on some parchment paper printed in old font for your players will go a long way; perhaps even reading it aloud to them in dramatic fashion as they pore over the records might help add to the atmosphere: 'Garundi female, 5'9', lbs A little work accomplishes a lot here, and players love when their character is spotlighted in front of the group like this.

I recommend doing one for each PC, and not leaving anyone out. If you don't want to read it, just hand each to the player doing the searching, and enjoy their reactions. A collection of item cards we used, each of which is applicable to In Search of Sanity. He has the abomination discipline, which uses his Charisma instead of Wisdom. Since he is the part of the final encounter and is a psychic, you'll likely want him to have some kind of phrenic pool.

Perhaps switching his Wisdom and Charisma scores is the easiest solution. Also, his detect thoughts should have a DC of 14, not He's been discussed a bit on this thread, but having GMed him already I'm going to reinforce what I initially felt about him: This is a very deadly opponent. I could go on about DR 5, regeneration, spell-like abilities, decent AC, good HP, resistances, strong saves, strong melee, and more--but we'll leave that to the rest of the thread.

If you spend your first round kicking off his Frightful Presence on top of the Fear aura, you might clear half the room of PCs. Suggestion should take care of another one, and you could be down to a one-on-one against the Tatterman. Let's assume they make their saves, and surround the Tatterman as he emerges from Zandalus. With fly perfect , he can 5ft. The best part is the finale though: use Feign Death. Incredibly, it's an immediate action, which makes selling it to your players even easier, and the Will save to notice it is actually pretty decent considering their level plus they've got to physically interact with the body.

Many horror baddies Jason or Michael Myers come to mind have the boogeyman getting up--again-and have to be beaten one last time. If you've got too many veteran players, when using Feign Death make the PCs roll for something else or just have them roll an extra will save each round for no reason throughout the combat, as you've got to throw off their metagame.

When the Tatterman 'goes down' with Feign Death, cheer along with the PCs, slap their hands, and congratulate them. Then sit down, act normal, ask them if they spread out to search the room or whatever your normal procedure is keep the attention off the Tatterman. Oh, and truly enjoy their reactions when the Tatterman gets back up--this is a horror campaign, after all. Better yet, pick your best role-player for this encounter: Keldrin Mon. To surprise my grognard, I started by describing the party walking down the street in a typical return trip to the Sleepless Agency.

As I did so, I came out from behind the screen and pretended as if I was headed to to grab something from the room adjacent to our play area. Your PC, on the other hand, might be the one stumbling here by being forced into a live situation that is exactly identical to their character.

Also, consider how your PCs might get into the fort to begin with; after all, the front doors are a serious pair of doors for this level of party. Following each incursion, while the players would plan their next attempt, I put myself in the position of both the skum commanders as well as Tilsitari and made a list of all my available forces.

Consider where you will reassign certain units; in addition, remember the abilities you have access to. For example, if you have all four dogs available after the first incursion, you might want to consider spreading them out at different points in the fort each with a handler or tied to a piece of furniture where they can employ their scent ability against invisibility and the like.

By the third incursion, I played a loose defense, using runners to alert the whole of my forces and bring them to bear against the PCs as soon as possible. Having intelligent undead as shock troops really helps with this.

Lastly, be sure to remember that there is some contact between Iris Hill and Hailcourse, so depending on where you are at in the module and what enemies are left at the manor, you may want to change the way future events play out. Part 3: Against the Cult of Hastur 'Tell no one about it they don't need to know I'd chalk a line around it Key to doing this is keeping her alive.

Remember that even if your PCs adjust to some of her tactics mine starting walking around withglitterdust ready and see invisibility running , a good old-fashioned stealth check gets around a lot. Just having her out there lurking, with the party never knowing when the next Death Attack might come—even with the low Fort save on it—they will become paranoid that anyone could botch the roll and perish if it becomes a pattern.

With Risi alive and unaccounted for, there is the ever-present thought of an intelligent foe hunting your character, capable of delivering death in a single shot. Get ready to enjoy watching your PCs take fearful precautions, such as boarding up windows in their sleeping area or peeking around every corner. If you have metagaming PCs who will try and listen for the number of sneak attack dice she rolls, just toss your 6-siders with about 10 other dice not d6s and only count up the applicable dice.

Sure, they can track the damage count, but it will take them longer to figure out the average amount that Risi does as opposed to hearing just 4d6 drop behind the screen.

We just came from the next rock over. Please present your papers. Then roll initiative. She launched her last Death Attack from invisibility and while we were distracted by cultists and a swarm. Below: By ending small combats quickly, the party manages to open the most important melee with some surprise. Two skum go for reinforcements, while the rest summon nearby allies and move to intercept. A grease spell made this battle a tactical challenge as well blue squares marked , with strong grid-play required to advance.

Marathon 2 Grid Gallery Above: Just as the party managed to press into the room and go on offense, three undead mercenaries arrived from behind. Below: The grease managed to slow up some of the undead on the party's flank, but more juju zombies--accompanied by dogs--now through their weight into the fray as well.

Itsqaal-Thoal can be seen retreating up the stairs to recover. Right: With the win nearly secured, Tilsitari the soulsliver now had no choice but to emerge to try and change the tide. She came down the stairs as Feiya, and for a moment everything seemed to stop as both witches stared each other down.

A surprising critical hit prevented the soulsliver from surviving the fight though, and the party was victorious. Third time's the charm. Above, we see the party exploring old chapel, moments before Risi fires from invisibility. Below, we see Risi after she has just taken a shot from a sniping position. Neither attempt was successful, but the assassin did escape into the woods above and the water below. Her time would come. Aside from the overall paranoia brought on by the fugue state, more and more elements kept getting introduced to escalate our fears as players as well as for our characters.

First, there were doppelgangers, and not only did everyone else in the asylum not trust us, we would be fools to trust them too. Then there were the unpredictable inmates-turned-apostles of a long-term lunatic. We tried to escape, but the fog outside revealed silhouettes of terrible things, accompanied with even more horrific sounds, so on top of all the insanity around us we were also trapped!

So we found ourselves exploring the asylum for clues how to escape, or rather how to defeat the evil presence that was preventing us from doing so. Fortunately we were able to form an alliance with other survivors, the most notable being a visiting cleric named Winter Klaczka who was sent by the Royal Accusers of Ustalav to investigate the hat was going on here.

Although she knew little more than we did, we were grateful for a safe haven amongst a few remaining guards and a handful of benevolent patients who made it to the chapel before the mists arose. Pushing on, we soon found something very promising — a library containing a vast amount of lore, not only about the history of the asylum, but so much more.

That is, until I burnt it down. Anyway, it soon became evident that the only way out was the way we came in, and that we had to once again face our greatest fears, not on the battlefield, but within our own minds. So, armed with less than ideal knowledge of our enemy, we had to steel ourselves and face him with the only thing that still had left: each other.

Knowing that the first of our possible six marathons would be in a Wes Schneiderdesigned asylum made things all the more exciting and we were sucked in from the opening scene. Without too many revelations, the asylum was a brilliant maze that had our party worried and on edge for the entire weekend. A wonderful balance of puzzle solving, role-playing, combat, and horror were spread judiciously throughout the entire adventure.

It was an amazing feeling to experience situations, problems, and monsters that none of us had ever been exposed to. One of our main goals in the Order is to seek out fresh and new experiences, which is increasingly hard to do with a combined gaming experience of more than years between the five people in the room, and yet, In Search of Sanity delivered in spades. Despite some trepidation from a few of our party members, and some difficulty due to the lack of a true BAB character, it seems like our decision might have been right on the money and that Jacobs was incredibly calculating in his choices both in flavor and practical skill application.

After making it through the adventure with only two deaths, I think we are all very excited to see what these specially chosen cast members will be capable of as the mystery unfolds. In the opening scene, our GM rolled a natural 20 with the Amber Die against me his first roll of the campaign which set the mood of horror and agitation that would resonate for the rest of the module.

Paranoia, fear, disgust, and confusion ran rampant from that point, pushing both myself and my character to question his memory, sanity, and conscience. By the end of the adventure I was glad that I was playing a lawful good character, otherwise I would have walked away with many more scars than I already did.

Discovering the library inside the asylum--including the battle against the ratlings within-belongs at the top of the list. Not only were we able to shut down the casters in that fight with some amazing teamwork, but the researching we were able to do was really helpful, considering we have two characters with a lot of Knowledge skills. Plus, we had only scratched the surface of the mystery and it only left us with more questions and doubts. It was amazing to see different pieces of the adventure come together that could have gone horribly awry at any moment and changed the outcome of this path.

Thankfully, our insistence of finding out as much as we could and our desire for role-playing encounters was able to save us in the end. The only way to appreciate the horror that your characters are going through is through role-playing and really putting yourself in their shoes. Strange Aeons has been a pleasant surprise for me. Not only did it exceed my expectations through design and construction, but also in how much it would unnerve me as a player.

Despite considering myself relatively non-emotional, it evoked fear, horror, and perhaps a touch of insanity. I was alternately afraid, elated, and disgusted. Starting in a fugue state was fun and frustrating, and in the beginning I sat wondering if I even knew my fellow adventurers before we ended up in the Asylum. What were our relationships? What circumstance brought us together? Were we friends? The opening of the module sucked me into the story, and the clues we uncovered along the way moved the plot along in expert fashion, even including a riveting setup for the next module.

The characters we met and the ways in which we met them were well conceived and delivered. Feiya nearly died several times, but what felt worse was watching members of my party lose their lives.

Against the many ghouls, there was one time when I was paralyzed by one and stood helpless, then after coming out of it having to drag one of their bodies across the asylum five feet at a time. It was draining. But as it seemed like we would never reach the safety of the chapel, we eventually remembered there was a wheelchair nearby!

This provided a better means of conveyance, as well as some much needed comic relief, as Feiya and Alahazra hauled the boys at breakneck speeds down the corridors.

Less funny was being yanked up into the fog by a leathery-winged, faceless foe and then dropped presumably to my death. Unable to do anything, I screamed until I hit the ground. I was certain I was dead. But the NPC cleric, Winter, had been readying an action to channel energy, hoping that I would fall within its radius, and as I did she saved me from a gruesome death.

But what really hurt was accidentally burning down the library. It was heartbreaking. All that knowledge lost! We did get some background information on the Asylum beforehand, but there was potentially so much more to find.

Some of my favorite things in the module were the haunts. Having to cross back through the bird room had me so scared that would begin to levitate me again, so I ran through ignoring any potential danger ahead. The river of blood left me totally grossed out and needing a shower…there was so much, and it never stopped!

Where did it all go afterwards? So creepy. These were my first encounters with this mechanic, which worked so well with the setting, adding to the mood, and enhancing the experience. Overall, I loved it. Despite lack of sleep and a continuous caffeine overload, my first major marathon was a huge success. We beat a module in an extended weekend. Four levels gained through dozens of difficult encounters, we left the asylum with more questions than answers. I particularly liked the 'Doppleganger Effect' that was truly well performed by the GM, creating an immediate danger and mistrust of everyone the group encountered.

Though I had a good idea of what was to happen, I too was totally surprised when they ran into some never before seen creatures. Working hand-in-hand with the Sleepless Agency, the first part of this adventure was a riveting mystery waiting to be solved. Spending most of the first two days of the marathon role-playing, we covered a lot of ground and I believe we completed most if not all of the detective work.

But this was no normal mystery. After dispatching a druid whom people believed was the Briarstone Witch, we thought that we were in the clear. Later that night as we were returning to New Chapel to rest at, an incorporeal old woman with tentacles floated towards us from the empty streets, moaning horribly.

We tried to fight it briefly, but even with magic weapons we were still only dealing a 1d4 or 1d6 damage, and against a creature with DR 10 it became obvious that it was hopeless so we fled. The next parts of the module were more action-packed, as we had to infiltrate not one, but two fortifications to uncover the agenda of the cultists of Hastur, how Count Haserton Lowls was involved, and how to stop them all from doing any further harm. Once again, we had to get out of there in a hurry to regroup and reassess.

Our incursion at Iris Hill went much better. It was as frustrating as it was grueling, but eventually after many long hours we finally found what we were looking for and brought down the cult. However, the Count had been long gone, and with several solid leads we were determined to pursue. Already badly wounded, we barely escaped. On that note, there is a big difference between a tactical retreat and fleeing.

If the group gets into an encounter that's a little over their heads due to lack of resources, or suddenly finds one or two of their members down and dying, it's often wise to retreat. However, in both modules so far especially this one - sometimes running away is the only viable option. With my character dead and not knowing if we would be able to raise him, I was forced to consider the possibility that my adventures with Quinn would be over, but thankfully we were able to spare the time and money to bring him back.