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Although I can think of plenty worse things to do with 30 bucks than spending it on the Monster Manual II...

Thanks for the information. Yes, there are worse things, but given the amount of money I've spent on D&D in the past 23 years...

And that $30 has other uses when you have three kids.

KEN RHODES wrote:

There is no way to avoid combat with the Stone Spike in the Malachite Fortress and still finish the adventure properly...

If you run into this in the future, you could always find another creature / obstacle of a similar EL for the party to overcome. Feel free to substitute anything you like - it's pluck and chuck (or plug and play) DMing...

Yes, that's what I ended up doing the first two groups I ran through it, but now I'm getting a third group started on this adventure. I really liked the unusual aspect of the creature and the quiet unexpectedness in that they were not aware that they were entering into a combat situation until it started to attack them. I just thought it'd be nice to have the real stats this time around.

I can't find anything about this by doing a search through the message board, so I'm posting this. I do not own a copy of MM2 (at least, not the 3rd edition one), so I have a problem with the adventure. There is no way to avoid combat with the Stone Spike in the Malachite Fortress and still finish the adventure properly, but there isn't any information about the Stone Spike in the web enhancement for this adventure, as was promised in the text of the magazine.

I didn't want to purchase the MM2 in the first place, and I really don't want to buy one just for one monster in a single adventure. Can anyone help me out?