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Athenaeum

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A One-Round Living Greyhawk Gran March Regional Adventure

From the introduction:

Danger lurks in the august halls of Gran March’s grand library. Your future tells of tomes, knowledge and transformation. How high must you climb to find an enemy so familiar it might have once been one of your own? Others were here first, and might seek to reclaim knowledge once promised and never delivered.

A Gran March regional adventure for [character levels] 2 - 16, and Part 3 of the Shattered Reflections series.

Military Time: Yes. Caravan: Yes.

Note: This adventure will be of particular interest to members of Syrloch, the Knights of the Watch, Gran March military PCs, and PCs with knowledge of Gran March. Despite The Athenaeum’s significance to Syrloch PCs, well-balanced parties are still strongly recommended.

Description

A One-Round Living Greyhawk Gran March Regional Adventure

From the introduction:

Danger lurks in the august halls of Gran March’s grand library. Your future tells of tomes, knowledge and transformation. How high must you climb to find an enemy so familiar it might have once been one of your own? Others were here first, and might seek to reclaim knowledge once promised and never delivered.

A Gran March regional adventure for [character levels] 2 - 16, and Part 3 of the Shattered Reflections series.

Military Time: Yes. Caravan: Yes.

Note: This adventure will be of particular interest to members of Syrloch, the Knights of the Watch, Gran March military PCs, and PCs with knowledge of Gran March. Despite The Athenaeum’s significance to Syrloch PCs, well-balanced parties are still strongly recommended.

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  • the challenge i think it was really fun
  • i would definitely recommend uh trying it out
  • it was a blast
  • it's easier than i thought it would be but once you get stuck on a set it's so hard to branch out
  • i'm so nervous i have to unlock my phone
  • not very good
  • tag us if you do it because we'd love to see how you folks do
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  • Set Collection — Filling up bookshelves.
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  • it was a little too long 12 hands was too many I would have preferred playing the 500 instead of a thousand
  • this system was had its cool things it had some cool things but it also had just some garbage ideas
  • it's just like who came about these rules it's just like these aren't streamlined these are garbage they are horrible
  • the Marvel superheroes game was like the Marvel Universe
  • spacehulk spacehulk spacehulk space Hulk I knew it was Warhammer I just didn't know
  • it's the one where you uh you're playing as a disease trying to kill everybody take over the world it's like an AA control game
  • I think it's in my top 25 or 50 games of all time
  • the game just chef's kiss
  • Shadows of Brimstone game and it's just like yeah doing nothing
  • Brimstone is our money maker they they'll milk the dead
  • it's sort of a Rog likee and I think it doesn't get enough credit
  • like you're doing the same thing just longer and more tedious and more like that's that's bad
  • the deluxe version of it um had a basically kind of a foil cover like as the person's casting a spell and so there's this kind of rainbow effect foil cover of like the magic that's coming up
  • it was it was insane yes crazy what people go foil covers bring to the end
  • the Cliffhanger game with a more compact box size streamline rule book and over a decade's worth of Polish and AATA worked in this is the ultimate edition of the classic Cliffhanger Adventure game
  • the cards were tiny
  • Shadows of Brimstone game and it's just like
  • we couldn't get any traction we couldn't get anybody to notice the game even existed anywhere
  • it was like it sold it we sold out day and a half just because it had a foil had a foil rainbow cover
  • I hate those things yeah I pick every box sleeve off of every game I've ever got
  • we would rather be cheated out of money than refuse a customer service request from somebody who honestly needed it
  • the owner said why isn't that guy allowed in the store and they told him why and he's like it's a free country he can say whatever he wants
  • I was like Rich if like quite literally Rich you should just tell people that I will be there and that will get more people to come in and and sell stuff and I and give me the table for free
  • I don't make anything so what's the point of
  • I don't have to pay $5 just so sit at a [ __ ] table now
  • we're not coming here anymore you come to my house for board game night that's it
  • well how about you buy it and when you're done with it bring it back to me and I'll give you the money back minus five bucks
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