Bordin's Watch - Emissary is Anticlimatic?

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containsquinine

Oct 27, 2008 6:57:38
Is it just me or does anyone else find the encounter with the Emissary extremely Anti-climatic. They don't even tell you his name, or the key that he is SUPPOSED to have on him until the 3rd module.

He is referenced on a note to Sinruth at the end over Rivenroar which suggest to the players that he is of some importance. I even referenced him on my own him before that in a note found on an Orcish spy Snooping around near Brindol.

Then he's just plopped into an encounter at the end of the module. My players would never know they evn killed him unless he jumped in with a cliche villainous soliloquy.

"MWU HA HA HA HA HA, For I am the villainous EMISSARY you have been looking for!"

I am toying with the idea of making the dark creeper "Modra" from module 3 the emissary. He seems slightly more on the ball and fleshed out as a villain to fit this role.

Anyone else thought of a way to make "The Emissary" a little more sinister.