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I've just run the Dream Fight this night. Two of the PCs died in the fight with Krathanos, which was the last trial they tackled. The remaining two defeated Sayren-Lei surprisingly fast. Then I ruled that the two dead PCs would also appear in the dream fight, alive again.

And as the Swords killed everyone but the cleric in a few rounds, my players suspected that they are not really dead (except the two who died earlier of course).

So I think, that encounter worked quite good with my group. They have had quite an easy time in the last encounters, so that really was a change of mood....

I've thought about it. They might as well realize that Lashonna is a minion of Kyuss. Lashonna will just leave the party early in that case, so that the players don't get a chance to ruin the celebration.
In Library of Last Resort it will be Manzorian, not Lashonna, who tells them about the Library.

I'll have to think a little more about it, if that works...

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I've got a new player in my campaign, who dropped in at the start of Prince of Redhand. She's playing a Cleric with the Wormhunter PrC. Now I'm worrying about the following thing:

Lashonna qualifies as a minion of Kyuss, right? So my Wormhunter will most probably realize that there is some minion of Kyuss at the feast. Well, she will be overwhelmed by that, due to Lashonna's high HD, but she will see the presence of a minion of Kyuss. I just don't want to imagine, what my players will do then.

Maybe they even find out that Lashonna is a minion of Kyuss, which migh make running the Library of Last Resort as written a bit difficult...

Has anyone of you experienced something like that?

Tobias

While not a campaign ender, a TPK (and the resulting new party born to continue the story) will damage some story lines/plot developments ingrained in future AP installments, to include some characters monologues to the PCs, which will be a pain in the butt to adjust on-the-fly.

We haven't had a TPK yet. But if that situation should occur, I'd let the players start with a new party just as if they had been gone through the previous adventures with that party. So nothing of the story gets lost and the players aren't punished beside losing their old characters.

Eruvaer

We've had our first PC death with the Vrock, so if the fight with Zyrxog should turn out to be a TPK, at least the one whose character died won't be so angry anymore... *lol*

I'm a bit unsure how the player, who plays the doppelganger that replaced his character, should behave when meeting other doppelgangers (as in event 3: betrayal at the bar or in D6: cells). And am I right that this player is not likely to step in any of the traps in the sodden hold as he knows this place, and that he won't be attacked by the stalkers in D7 as he knows the password?

Eruvaer, a bit confused

My PCs refused to break the egg in fear of the dragon's wrath. So they told Hishka he could break it if he wanted to, when they are away. Three of them swam back to look after Marzena and the soldiers but our fighter was too curious and stayed with Hishka. Hiska broke the egg, worms crawl out, infest the lizard eggs and so on. As the spawnlings crawl out the fighter decides to fight them (alone), while Hishka tells the other players to come back (after saving some eggs).

Due to some very bad fortitute save rolls the fighter was finally reduced to constitution 1 -- too low to hold his breath long enough to go back through the tunnel. Fortunately the others come back just in time to prevent his constitution from dropping to 0 by the secondary damage. (Well, actually they were late but I didn't want a PC death just because the others were one or two rounds late).

Tonight my group managed themselves in a very funny situation:

They arrived at the lizardfolk lair in the evening. Inside, they spotted the two harpies, which in turn didn't spot the PCs. But the players didn't attack them but started to go to the other direction. After killing some lizardfolk they come to the room with the worm infested lizardman. Our wizard kills him with a magic missile and worms come out of it, so the other lizardfolk thinks the PCs are responsible for the worm. So two of them run away to warn Shishka. After the other lizardfolk were dead the PCs decide to go to the harpies now and cast silence on the catfolk spellthief to protect them from the harpies' song. But the harpies are gone to watch the entrance, so the PCs go elsewhere and finally encounter Shishka (the silence spell still on the catfolk). When the fighter Daer and Shishka got outside the silenced area they start talking while they fight so Shishka finds out that the PCs are not responsible for the worms and Daer finds out that it would probably be better not to kill Shishka. So they stop fighting.

Ok, now the funny part: The catfolk couldn't hear anything of the talk because of the silence spell, but what he saw was this: Shishka talking to Daer and Daer putting his sword away. So he thought Shishka had charmed Daer and so the catfolk charges on Shishka.

Well, my group first put him to negative hp, then made him stable. But after the Zombies were defeated our catfolk spellthief decided to kill Filge. Our elf fighter tried to grapple him in order to prevent this but failed his check.

When trying to view the artwork my browser (konqueror 3.4.1) shows the jpgs as plain text. I have to save it to disk first. That's kind of annoying...

But keep up that good work!

Tomorrow, I'll start with this group:

- human male hexblade
- human male red wizard
- catfolk male spellthief
- human male fighter

The fighter originally wanted to play a sorcerer but changed it to a fighter after I told him what the others play. That might have been interesting with all characters being some kind of spell casters...