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One advantage of writing an adventure that retraces the history of the gaming hobby is that I get to be *extremely* petty about very obscure things that have annoyed me for thirty-something years.

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In this particular case, a bit of read-aloud text from a Dragonlance module that was designed with the best of intentions - to allow that module to be used if you hadn't played the previous ones.

If you feel like taking potshots on my behalf, spare an insult or two for ridiculously verbose and overwritten TSR-era read-aloud text boxes.

Basically, every NPC we met went "ah, you are friends of the others", so often that "you are friends of the others" is still a byword in one of my gaming group for "absurdly flimsy justification for forcing the PCs to go along with the plot"