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Re: Prisoner of Darkness (Score: 1)
by Kirt on Sun, December 06, 2009
(User Info | Send a Message) | Well, it is definitely a module - it is from WGR6 (The City of Skulls). It is not a short story in the sense that I did not make it up - it is the transcript of what actually transpired when the PC's in my campaign adventured in that particular module. So, it is a factual account of a fictional adventure. While it has story elements, obviously the "room by room" description has no place in a purely fictional story where the author is in control of pacing, exposition, etc. But again, it is a record of actual campaign events, not an attempt to novelize those events.
As far as the titles of the spells, well, what do PC's in your campaign say when they come up against a "Wizard Lock"? "Ah, this lock seems to be warded by the arcane magic that reinforces locks..."? If a mage can study a spell named "Wizard Lock" I would think that PC's in-game can refer to the spell by its title. When the PC's have a strategy session do they say, "What spells will you prepare for the morrow?" "I am preparing the spell which enables me to shoot forth flames from my very hands" or "I will prepare Burning Hands?"
Certainly "Type III Demon" is more meta-game and in some campaigns would be jarring. However, I expect that there are many different local terms for a hezrou on different planes of existence and I would also expect that dedicated demonologists have come up with some sort of classification system. I have included the term because it is one the PC's know and use; after they did the Demonweb Pits they investigated what the creatures were that they had fought. Notice that I did not use the term "dretch" because this was the first time the PC's faced them and they did not in fact know what they were.
It is not my intention that this read like a story, merely that it be an account of what the PC's actually experienced. Terms like AC and HD have no place in the in-character vocabulary of a PC, but at least in my campaign PC's do use spell titles and generalized terms for monsters.
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