Talk:Living ENWorld:Adventure:Festival of Halina

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El Jefe's Comment

It can be argued that Festival of Halina was the impetus for this whole thread recompilation thread. One of my characters encountered the Gardia bridge in Treasure of the Tierra Padre, and as a player, I was very impressed with the setting. I believe that Treasure of the Tierra Padre was the first place the bridge was described, although it was not named in that thread.

In Festival of Halina, that character's very next adventure, he travelled to the very same bridge, and found it's character completely different. I sent the DM a link to the description of the Treasure of the Tierra Padre, and he graciously agreed to change the description of that area in his game to match the one given in the earlier adventure. Fortunately, the change did not affect the encounter that he had planned for the location...

I didn't give the Festival of Halina description of the bridge in the previous post, because the information is identical to the description in the Treasure of Tierra Padre post further back in this thread.

Probably the biggest discrepancy is Fenton, the little hamlet that is springing up at the intersection of the Orussus-Fallon road and the road to Lathirn to the south. Fenton did not appear until the Ashin's Commission adventure, which came after both Treasure of Tierra Padre and Festival of Halina. I suppose we could argue that during the time of Festival of Halina, the intersection was marked only by a clearing and a firepit, and the new hamlet of Fenton has only sprung up since then, but that seems a little contrived. Perhaps passers-by have the option of spending the night within the palisade of Fenton for a small fee, or using the "old" campsite nearby if they are destitute or persona non grata in Fenton.

About the only other thing in Festival of Halina worth mentioning is Covington. It's not on the map, which implies that it is small. The population had obviously at least doubled or tripled during the festival, so it's hard to get a feel for how big the place is during the rest of the year from reading through the FoH thread. At any rate, the size of the town is not specified in the thread. Notably, it is big enough to have both a village square, which implies a certain minimum size, and a library, which argues that it's not that small at all. The oversized Temple of Halina seems out of place, too...maybe the village sprung up around the great harvest temple, or something like that.

Bront's Comment

Covington is probably around 500 people, but accomidates a few thousand during the festival, hense it's big/small feel. Ask most people, and the temple has always been there, so that doesn't help much, nor is there any particular reason the festival is held here over elsewhere besides tradition and Halina's Barrel of Plenty, which creates an infinate amount of whatever is made and/or placed in it once a year. I'm guessing next year, no beer. =)

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