ElyasRavenwood wrote:
I know this may be a stupid question....
All of my PCs have darkvision.
For Fort Estazano the PCs approached under the cover of darkness and I allowed the PCs to get right up to the fort, and I had them make stealth checks or be heard.
I expect they will want to do something similar when assaulting the court of spears. How would you change things If the PCs are coming in under the cover of darkness?
Thanks
Court is a Fortress. It just cant sleep at night. There are guards and yes, they need line of sight on surroundings. So my idea: they got pack of branches under “Continual Flame” spell (thx to Aericad ‘at will’). They will put them all around Court and surroundings bellow. Yes, this makes them noticeable at night, but it’s better than to be blind. Using torches, I think, is prohibited by Losoni.
And I have some question. What do you think about uniting encounters in this campaign part? I just can’t find any logical explanation why encounters in Fort Estazano are separated. But it will be devastation for party if I throw Naliga (CR higher then boss!!!) on them under constant sneaky shots from guardhouse (Thx to arrow slit AC and Stealth bonus).
And what about Court? Every it inhabitants are standing in clear line of sight of each other, due to distance, open space and Kels ringing alarm bell like crazy. By logic it’s single encounter that starts from rain of arrows and spells on lower ground party. How am I supposed not to wipe party?
- Ok, I can say that Lencia is trust her subordinates so hard that she ignore nonstop alarm for an hour, until party finds her (This is lawful stupid… but ok).
- … Aericad is guarding his precious bridge and do not care about death cries of his yesterday friends (lawful stupid part 2).
- Losoni care only about trees. And while there is no fire damage for court – no nature support. But he is CG not N… mmm
- Slova is so afraid of her heritage that ever her own lover death agony is just annoying sound… Srsly?
- Escaped NPC’s from part 2 are tending they wounds for days while also escaped Tilevia refused to just magically heal them due to <not logical reason placeholder> and cant join fortress defend till party get to them personally.
All others are just one big encounter with huge positions advantage that will wipe any non-munchkin or very lucky party.
Of course i can remade everything! Whole part 3. But I haven’t got so much time and GM skill. And I have feeling that maybe part is ok as it is. It’s just me who can’t see obvious things. So I’m asking for help!
Some information: This is my first GM experience. Party (Bloodrager, Summoner, Kineticist) consist from highly experience people who knows how to power play, but I’d already wiped them by Rhona (x3 weapons for bosses – bad idea) and I don’t want to reincarnate them for free by Fex again.
Sorry for engrish...
