| Pinkius |
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My party of 3, a half orc fighter, a gnome rogue, and (me) a goblin (burn it all) sorcerer TPKed a little later...
If it sounds like we had no healing, Arcane Evolution with a heal scroll was our solution, not that we got to use it.
We went north east avoiding the forest, found the gnomes, and agreed to solve their Roc problem. After we approached under an invisibility sphere, we opened with a heighted level 5 fireball for 10d6+7 (pre-buff) that one Roc saved against and one failed, the failed one took a little less than half it's hp in damage I think.
Then it picked up the fighter and the sorcerer, and flew off the mountain. Thankfully a quickened level 3 sleep worked, and a mid-air fly spell combined with a successful grab the edge meant neither of us took 30 bludgeoning damage that the roc did.
Anyway after that, the Rocs didn't pick anyone else up, the gnome managed an intimidate, and we killed them.
Then we heard from the gnomes there was a dragon to the south.
Then we sought out the cyclopsi to the south of the forest, then we went dragon hunting.
Then we decided talking to the giant was too risky so we ought to sneak past it with invisibility sphere.
Then we realized the cave only went about 30 feet in.
Now we weren't expecting invisibility to work on the DRAGON, but I thought there would be a dungeon or something.
The second combat encounter lasted 2 rounds.
The dragon breathed fire on us, then the giant dropped down and pincer-ed us.
A Suggestion spell failed against by the giant, mostly trying to send him away for a turn or two, the dragon beat on the fighter a bit, and then the giant crit splattered both the fighter and the sorcerer. The rogue had crit failed against the fear aura and ran away.
We're just going to handwave this book.