Might be a bit late of a reply, but the optimal party size for most of the LH modules is 3-4 players. You can run The Bureau with more, but horror in general starts to break down a bit when you have such a large party, as y'all will effectively be a small army tearing this place up. 7 won't be the end of the world, but it'll be more "action" than horror.
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While the pregens are based on the Undercover Agents and Unwitting Investigators, the information presented in the base zine is for the GM. So when you’re playing Triangle Agency, your players will have to contend with those Unwitting Investigators, some of which may be connected to their player characters in some manner (regardless of whether or not they’re using a pregen). So the relationship hooks listed for those characters assumes you’re using them as NPCs while playing TA.
In general, I typically like to leave this up to a "play to find out" style of resolution. Surely your players can come up with a clever idea!
However, I know that's unsatisfying, so here's a few ways worth considering:
- The most obvious is for the PCs to take the place of the townsfolk. The Merrymakers are really only looking for "entertaining guests" to bring to the wedding. If the PCs prove themselves sufficiently entertaining, whatever that may mean to a fae, then there would be no real need to snag additional townsfolk.
- You could also just straight up wreck the portal. That'd probably piss off the Merrymakers, but the PCs may be able to negotiate their way out of a fight. Or maybe the Merrymakers just scatter at that point to attempt to find another way back into the faerie realm, rather than risk getting stuck.
- The Ringmaster is also supposed to be super hot, so maybe y'all can just fall in love.
- There's also the classic of "burn everything down". Creating a sufficiently large incident would work to frighten the townsfolk away from the carnival and snap them out of the alluring enchantments.
Excited to finally see this come to fruition after seeing the hints to its existence!
If you end up falling short of funding goals (however unlikely), I’d be more than happy to do layout free of charge, if you have no interest in doing it yourself. Goblin Archives and I are teaming up for the next “official” Liminal Horror adventure, so I’m already buried in that mindset.
Graves Left Wanting is a fantastic adventure that really shines as a one-shot or campaign starter (or I suppose a campaign re-starter). This supplement is a great lead in, especially combined with the Scumbirther and Scumatorium character generators, which honestly makes me question why something like this wasn't included from the start. I'll definitely be using it next time I run the adventure.
This is a really cool idea. I'm curious to see how it would play out in a session. One thing to note is that the way the PDF is formatted, printing this as intended would be pretty difficult without manually breaking the doc up in editing software. It might be easier just to have two separate pamphlet files.