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Hello advice board. I'm in the process of creating a ranger for a new Carrion Crown campaign, but am undecided with the type of "casting" system to use with him. Note that I'm taking the Urban Ranger variant to fill in the role of the "expert" in the party.

I'm currently leaning towards the skrimisher since it seems to be pretty versatile, can be used used more frequently and I like the idea of ranger "tricks" but I fear that I'll be missing out on some cool encounter changing spells and the option to use wands and scrolls. The trapper just seems, well, weak on paper to me, but I haven't seen it in action. Would I be gimping myself by taking the skrimisher? Is the trapper even worth a second look?

...what would they be? I ask this because in my current gaming group, we are running a collaborative campaign where we are taking turns running an adventure. So I'm trying to figure out how I can run a condensed Age of Worms path while still keeping the main theme. I've heard that Three Faces of Evil is a bit more like a side trek, so I was thinking of skipping it and letting someone else handle the level 3/4 adventure. But I want to make sure I don't miss anything reeeeally important, so for you veteran AoW DM's, which ones do I need to run?

Hello all,

I ran the Shackled City AP a couple of years back and RPGenius.com was invaluable in providing stat blocks, handouts, and most importantly, side quests for the campaign. I think our favorite event ever was probably the Demonskar ball thanks to delvesdeep's fleshing out of the event. So now, I'm about to run some of Age of Worms and come to find out none of the links don't work there anymore. Is there an alternative to RPGenius where I can get homebrewed supplemental material for this adventure path?

Maybe I'm not seeing the big picture here, buy why is Terseon invading Redgorge again? Is it just to look for Alek? That seems a bit extreme, expecially since it's to the bad guys benefit if Alek is never found. Am I missing a vital plot point?

My party made it to the cryohydra encounter in SCAP yesterday. They consist of 3 lvl 7's, 1 lvl 6, and 1 lvl 5, all gestalt. Since I lowered the number of heads on the monster to 6, I thought they would mop up the floor with it. So I started with the standard cold-breath attack.

After rolling good damage for three of the heads and the party making poor save rolls, I realzed if I had continued, I would have a TPK on my hands. So I choked, and had the hydra stop at three heads. I even fudged the die roll for the recharge so it wouldn't breath again right away (I rolled a 1 on the d4).

Anyway, my question is, how do you guys handle TPK's in a campaign like SCAP, or any other for that matter? Do you allow a do over of the encounter? Do you have everyone roll up new characters and take up where the old party died? Or do you scrap the campaign and use the opporunity to start another?