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Message no. 1
From: Stefan Struck <struck@******.INFORMATIK.UNI-BONN.DE>
Subject: Fasa Modules: Harlequin POSSIBLE SPOILER
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 10:08:48 +0100
Martin writes:
> I GM-ed Harlequin with one group and are still playing it with
> another group, but I think it's one of the worst adventures ever
> published. Not because the story is bad (it's very good actually),
> but try and read the module. Most sequences are three or four pages
> long and very cryptic, which means you must write them out yourself.
> I ended up rewriting the whole book and I didn't buy it for that!
Problem with H. in my group was, that we don't play that often, maybe
twice a month and if you play only one other longer adventure beetween
two parts of H., noone will remember the last one.
Quotes:
"hey, this ehran guy, doesn't I hear the name somewhere before?"
"Yep"
"All these elves around, isn't that odd"
...and something like this.
It went so far, that the player couldn't answer the important questions
when interrogated by Dr. What.

bye,
Stefan
Message no. 2
From: Martin Steffens <BDI05626@***.RHIJ.NL>
Subject: Re: Fasa Modules: Harlequin POSSIBLE SPOILER
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 17:47:53 +0100
On 14 Dec Stefan wrote:

> Problem with H. in my group was, that we don't play that often, maybe
> twice a month and if you play only one other longer adventure beetween
> two parts of H., noone will remember the last one.
> Quotes:
> "hey, this ehran guy, doesn't I hear the name somewhere before?"
> "Yep"
> "All these elves around, isn't that odd"
> ...and something like this.
> It went so far, that the player couldn't answer the important questions
> when interrogated by Dr. What.

Same problem here (the team was interrogated for two weeks before the
players came up with a way to escape, but they didn't know a thing
anymore). I "solved" it by making short abstracts of their adventures
so far which work like a kind of PC-memory ( a lot of my players use
mnemonic enhancers anyway). Come to think of it they can make them
themselves, that will include the factor of subjective remembering
things. Also you don't have to reveal the links between the Harlequin
adventures.

Greetings,

Fael Inis <aka Martin Steffens>

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