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I have been running the SCAP for the past couple of years now and we are just about to start Chapter 10 - Thirteen Cages, but I ran into a question almost at once.
I'm using a spoiler button just to be safe. If you're a player there are spoilers to the game inside.
Thanks for any suggestions.
I didn't merge many encounters and have found the single encounters were fairly easy for the heroes to handle. My assumption was that the Cagewrights have just completed the Ritual of Planar Binding and are pretty much exhausted and maybe even a little crazed, thinking that at this point they're pretty much unstoppable. They trust the fire giant and his Flamewarder minions to defend the complex and are certain that no enemy force can destroy the Tree of Shackled Souls or take the Dispersal Collar from the pyroclastic dragon.
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We just finished this section, and it was a real drain on party resources. The cleric and favored soul were low on spells and bursts, as was the paladin, the duskblade still had some disitegrates at the end (thankfully)
We actually used had the cleric and favored soul jump into a portable hole with the collar and I flew across the room and put them by the tree. Luckily we kept rolling great on saves and a lucky disintegrate really put the hurt on. We had just enough heals and spells to make it through this encounter, with 6 players and 1 cohort. That seems like a well balanced AP to me and was a lot of fun to play through, now to see how the end game goes. Since we didn't have any deaths in the last section, i'm betting we hit some bad luck here.