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I'm probably looking at a ban with what I'm likely to add to the D&D boards on WotC. They'd better turn their filters on.

Dungeon rocks. Best D&D product on the market.

The maps aren't usually used much as handouts but are nice for DM use to write on and such. I very much like being able to hand out pictures of the NPCs.

Has anyone run Zyrxog as written? I can't imagine a 7-8th level party being able to take him & 2 octopins without suffering anear TPK, especially if he's ready for them. Hell, his mind blast has a DC of 23, which can easily put half a party out of commission for 3-12 rounds. Am I missing something?

The party gets a preview and then has time to prepare, so they should be ready for him. He's still a pretty bad dude, though.

My party made pretty short work the LMs...and the whole adventure pretty much. The harpy encounter almost got deadly because of some poor save rolls. Shukak can be formidable in certain circumstances.

I think it's good to have an adventure like this, especially around 5th level or so. It get's the players off the jitters caused by playing fragile low-level PC's.

The previous poster is correct that the Hall more than makes up for the ease of this one.

If I'm reading that right, that sounds overpowered for 2000 gp. Why a reflex save? Do you dodge it?

A kyuss worm is in no way shape or form a disease or a parasite. It doesn’t carry any disease. It is simply a worm (albeit a very nasty one).

You make some pretty good points. For clarity's sake, a disease is a condition. Specifically, a condition that impairs normal function in a living thing. An organism cannot be a disease but they can cause disease. In that case, the organism is pathogenic. Diseases can have no underlying organisms, typically one, or several different ones. Some quick examples that might help...

I just started running the AoW and my party just got to the stairs leading to area 19. How far do the steps go down? To me it looks like they were only about 10ft down. If this is the case, how can the entire area be under water. I think I really messed this part up!!!

Beldar

I was thinking the same thing and kept going back and forth thinking I was reading the description incorrectly.

I don't think there's enough stairs to fully submerge the room. If you draw out another 10' of stairs it's a lot easier to visualize and doesn't affect anything.

ive been a dm since the early 80s,and having all those years xp i would say the worms do 1 point of damage as it burrows in then dies from the paladins divine health.

crippling the character class by making exceptions is a good way tp lose your players

Concur. I don't even make an exception for the 1hp damage. I'm running it as full immunity based on divine health by the logic that not all diseases covered by divine health are removed with "remove disease" but if "remove disease" removes it then it's covered. I also wouldn't try to logically determine what is and isn't a disease in D&D. It's a complicated enough subject in real-life.