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Anyone else giving it a shot?

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Originally posted by bshugg

3 Faces is nice as theres lots of minis that can work for it. I was excited when I saw the grimlock barb in Underdark. The original ones are kinda goofy. The toughest matches are the Aspect (Originally was going to be Aspect of bane, but I used Grey Render), and krenshar's (I made it a cave wolf instead)

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Originally posted by ShadowLord XT

Is Age of Worms a book?? Or is it 10 or so copies of dragon magazine?

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Originally posted by glauron

At this time the DM is getting sort of worried. He says he's playing it by the book but I'm not so sure. Anyway, that is where the day ended.
Can the first module be this deadly?

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At this time the DM is getting sort of worried. He says he's playing it by the book but I'm not so sure. Anyway, that is where the day ended.
Can the first module be this deadly?

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Yes, it can be. It requires smart play.

Just for comparison, here's how my group handled it:

Elevator number 2 resulted in a cave in and a beetle swarm and a mad slasher managed a TPK.

The party retreated and laid burning oil along the floor that destroyed the swarm. The slasher was otherwise killed.

We tried burning the beatles, but our efforts were ineffective. We didn't have a rogue in our original 5, though one PC was a scout. Nobody had knowledge dungeoneering. So out of game knowledge was no help.

We started again with new characters, well the same characters actually, and went down elevator 1 where a weird strangler killed one of the party - a cleric, leaving 4 of us.

The party made the Spot check, and destroyed the lurking strangler.

We all did spot and listen checks. Nobody saw it until it was too late.

We went down the collapsed tunnel where elevator 2 used to be and a beetle swarm killed off three of us.

As I recall, the party bypassed that room. (If not, burning oil!)

Same problem as before, but we ran this time, having run out of oil. The beetles ran faster than some of us, especially vertically.

In another short passage where there was no lantern, our rogue died when he got squashed in an elevator.

Noticing the crushed equipment in the elevator, and making the Search check for traps, the party deduced that entering the elevator was a Bad Idea.

We had a scout at this stage, and she spotted the trap, but the DM made her do a will save (He said afterwards that she had included greedy as a character trait when creating her character, so he decided she could test her flaw, lol. The look on her face when he called this was hilarious). Her greed overcame her caution (she rolled a 1), so she got squished. She thought her reflexes would beat the trap. Very nicely roleplayed death by Maree, even if it was rather quick.

We got her character back when we found another rogue climbing down the chain in the passage with a blue lantern. He (playing male rogue now) reckoned he'd found something interesting, but needed help so up we went.
Not long after a strong wind blew four of us down the shaft to our deaths. The rogue survived with some major reflex save that allowed him to grab the chain.

Only the rogue and the fighter went up first in my game. The Rogue made the save; the fighter was wearing a ring of feather falling found in the adventure!

We had the ring, but it was being carried, not worn. We hadn't been able to get it identified. Total party wealth, ex starting equipments was less than 20 gold. Nobody was taking a chance on wearing an unknown ring.

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There have been 2 PC deaths so far.

The first was when the party made a plan to ambush some approaching monsters, then once combat was joined, the druid says, "Oh, I've just realised that Entangle will get us as well!" Suddenly the plan fell apart in a big way.

The second was when the party lined themselves up to attack an evil wizard (they knew he was there, and he knew they were there, and he'd already cast spells at them). Two lightning bolts down the corridor killed the group's sorcerer.

I hope it is a long time before we come across NPC who throw lightning bolts. If that happens while we're L1-2, we're toast. Sometimes smart play is difficult, especially for low level characters, when what they know is limited, even if your character has a good intelligence score. Combine that with some pretty ordinary skill checks and saving throws, and it's plenty of spilt blood.

Note for new DMs. Be nice at low levels.

Cheers!

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Originally posted by nycfarmkid

Our group just finished adventure 6? im not sure what the number is, though our DM said we were halway through the whole campaign. We fought a couple of Demons with eyes all over their bodies. I wish our DM would make the encounters tougher. We have a small army of between 9-12 depending who all shows. 9 pc's a cohort, an animal companion, and a fire elemental familiar at max. He adds monsters and bumps their levels to accomodate the large party, but we still never have people die. We have had a close call or two, but thats it. Heck even the PC's that want to die so new characters can be tried can't seem to die. My guess is that since we have an abundance of spellcasters we drop damage really fast and stuff dies too quick.

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[quote]Originally posted by nycfarmkid

I am amazed that you can get through the modules that quick with so many players. There are 5pc in our campaign, we've had two 10 hour games sessions, and are only half way through the first module according to our DM.
Do you guys play 40 hours a week?

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