I've been running my players through this fantastic adventure as an introduction to the WoG after years of generic or home-brewed worlds. It was supposed to get them used to the world and its geography and important characters (I've been referencing topics constantly) before running RttToEE. Of course, it seems the following game will now be the AoW path.
Anyway, they tackled the first two levels fairly quickly, but have now begun to slowly take on Kerzit's Fane. With only a week of game time passing for both the Great Hall and Tomorast's Hold, it's been two weeks for less than half the Fane.
Now, I'm wondering if there are any logical ways for the remaining enemies to react. Yug-Anark, Aldest and Nemill are all dead, along with every one of the Seeker guards. Could Eli contact someone to recruit more Seekers? How do the gnolls act after the death of their leader- the only person keeping them near the humans? Could any of the dead be replaced, at all.
I want some rationale behind the dungeon and activity around the characters, and have done some of this myself, but would like more input from other players. And as it seems that my players will be taking more time between encounters and fewer encounters per day, any reactive tactics on the part of the dungeon's denizens would be appreciated
I had something similiar happen. When Yug-Anark was killed the Gnolls left the castle. Once most of the seekers were dead, incuding the captain and lietenants the last seeker left, the dog trainer, actually joined the party as a PC (one of our characters died and the re-rolled replacement was identical to the NPC so I let the player use the same name and join the party).
The party then defeated Eli AND managed to change is alignment to LG. After which he cleared out the rest of the dungeon and turned it into a proper home/research area with paid guards and the like. He became the parties mentor/sage.
Stopped playing after that since I ended up moving countries! I restarted a new campaign (Shackled City) with new players.