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I think giving the party their daily preparations is not just a reasonable call but the only reasonable call. I'd put the odds that the party was intended to be without abilities instead of the author simply not having thought about that 1 hour assumption for daily prep (and not having called it out explicitly when that was the intended function) at roughly 0%.

With Hammerjack on this one. I had my players make daily prep before breakfast...still ended in a TPK though one time though.

Awesome, thanks! I really liked this scenario and have been thinking about running it myself, but I didn't want to run it without that prep time, since I can't see that ending without a TPK in a lot of cases.

The text for the final battle begins with this sentence:

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The morning of the attack, the PCs are summoned from their rest by a loud clangor of ringing bells and the clattering of metal weapons being retrieved from wooden racks.

Page 480 of the CRB says:

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Once every 24 hours, you can take a period of rest (typically 8 hours)... After you rest, you make your daily preparations, which takes around 1 hour. You can prepare only if you’ve rested, and only once per day. Preparing includes the following...

As written, the PCs don't get to make their daily preparations: no spell slots, no invested gear, no infused reagents, no focus pool refill, etc. Is this intended to be a no-daily-prep fight? I strongly doubt it, but unless the PCs watch a battle through their window for an hour while they study and pray, that's RAW.

Does anyone know if it was intended for the party to enter the final encounter without a chance for daily preparations? When I played in this scenario, the GM said he wasn't sure if that was intended, and let us have time to prepare while Sveinn-Blood Eagle and his team held off the first wave of attackers. I don't know if we would have survived otherwise. Do you think giving the party their daily preparations is a reasonable call for the GM?