In article <45acaaa3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, tussock <scrub@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Just out of interest, how many encounters does your group do
>between exits? There's a good string of EL 3 and EL 4 ones there, and
>the 4th EL = APL in a day is supposed to wipe out your resources.
They did all of the described encounters in one pass, taking careful
account of their own resources.
For roleplaying reasons, it seemed unreasonable to do them
one or two encounters at a time: it was hard to imagine, given
the setup, that the NPCs would neither improve their position
nor retaliate against the PCs' allies. The module assumes that the
PCs don't care what happens to the NPCs most deeply in the grip of
the cultists, but in our case, those NPCs are the parents of two
of the PCs, and the PCs do care.
I don't think Hextor would have been easier in multiple p*****.
The PCs used Darkness, which they cannot cast, to make it work.
The grimlocks would have been, because Silence is a perfect
defense against them but only lasts long enough for 1-2 encounters.
But it is hard to imagine that the third faction wouldn't do
anything in the meantime. And the grimlock casters might also
get smart and cast Darkness themselves (it was foolish of
them not to be carrying it in the first place).
As the PCs have a wand of CLW, healing/hit points were not an issue;
they were at full hp for every encounter.
My experience is that at these levels, encounters do not wipe out
your resources all that quickly: the PC deaths come from either
single too-hard encounters or from dice, not from resource exhaustion.
(This assumes the party doesn't push past the end of their spells,
which this one hadn't, and still hasn't. They are, however, running
a bit low and are out of alchemist's fire. They may retreat now and
hope that the remaining cultists are too few to mount an effective
response.)
The module seems to assume that the PCs can take this room by
room and nothing will ever change, but my player won't tolerate
that kind of thing.
Mary Kuhner mkkuhner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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