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Vengeance in Freeport is a 3.5 Dungeons & Dragons adventure for characters level 7 through 9. This review contains spoilers. I have identified groups experiences with the adventure using the PLAYTEST tag.
Vengeance links to the original trilogy in that Drac is still the bad guy. Even from the grave, he manages to threaten Freeport. He set a plan into motion that would, in the event of his death, leave the city shattered by bombs. The adventure opens with an explosion near the PCs and, from there, they are called upon by Sister Gwendolyn to investigate.
PLAYTEST: I’ve always felt that players get far too comfortable with adventures, just assuming that monsters sit around in dungeons waiting to die. I figure that as PCs get higher level, they should be reminded that they’ve made enemies, and that those enemies have enough resources to hurt their family and friends. This session reminded our heroes just how vulnerable they really are.
The characters first lead is a shard of pottery used in the explosion. But when they arrive at the potter's home, someone has beat them to the information--a group of orcs known as the Crimson Death. From there the PCs can either confront the orc group or follow the next lead to the wizard who commissioned a set of jars matching the one used in the explosion.
PLAYTEST: I changed the location of the explosion to the Last Resort from Tales of Freeport. I changed Parnass the Evoker to Kenzil, the wizard who commissioned Scarbelly to steal the staff of defense from the Freeport Trilogy. Scarbelly was put in charge of the Crimson Death as their leader. All this helped make tie the scenario into the events that went before.
No matter which path is followed, the PCs confront who now has the fire bombs and learn of Drac's final plan. But when the jars are accounted for, two are missing and scheduled for delivery to their targets at the same time.
PLAYTEST: Vengeance in Freeport seems more interested in having PCs solve a mystery than putting them in any danger, so I amped things up a bit. I changed the adventure so the PCs had time to stop the bombs, but to do so they had to split up and rush to different locations: the Temple of Yarris, Temple of Althares, Falthar's Curios (from Focus on Freeport), and The Courts. This was a much more exciting conclusion.
Overall, Vengeance in Freeport is an interesting follow-up to the trilogy. It just needs some tweaking to tie it more tightly to the characters and locations from the previous events.
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