My group is currently in "downtime mode" after ending our last session at the Land Farmstead. During downtime we email each other and do general housekeeping items such as sales as well as some a little Diamond Lake roleplaying. I was all ready for the group to do some in town searching for Kullen & Crew, but now an impatient member of the party wants the ranger to use his Track feat to follow the wheelbarrow tracks.
Did anyone else have to deal with this? What does everyone recommend?
I'm guessing the DC is 15 (Soft Ground) + 7 (a week has passed) -1 (4 creatures being tracked) + 5 (assuming Rastophan the evil ranger hides their tracks) for a grand total of 26. I don't see any reason why our party's ranger can't take 20, and with 5 ranks in Survival and a decent wisdom score he's going to make this. Am I totally off on this? I'm surprised there was no mention of this in the module.
It doesn't have to be soft ground all the way from the farm to the observatory. Plus the wheelbarrow tracks could have mingled with other tracks along the way. You could also rule that it's been more than a week.
Personally, I would have the trail run cold after maybe 100 yards or so -- enough to give a clue to the direction of the culprit, but not the location.
My group is currently in "downtime mode" after ending our last session at the Land Farmstead. During downtime we email each other and do general housekeeping items such as sales as well as some a little Diamond Lake roleplaying. I was all ready for the group to do some in town searching for Kullen & Crew, but now an impatient member of the party wants the ranger to use his Track feat to follow the wheelbarrow tracks.
Did anyone else have to deal with this? What does everyone recommend?
I'm guessing the DC is 15 (Soft Ground) + 7 (a week has passed) -1 (4 creatures being tracked) + 5 (assuming Rastophan the evil ranger hides their tracks) for a grand total of 26. I don't see any reason why our party's ranger can't take 20, and with 5 ranks in Survival and a decent wisdom score he's going to make this. Am I totally off on this? I'm surprised there was no mention of this in the module.
It says the wheelbarrow tracks lead back to Diamond Lake. I ruled that the amount of traffic on the road to DL made it impossible to follow the trail once it reached the road.
It says the wheelbarrow tracks lead back to Diamond Lake. I ruled that the amount of traffic on the road to DL made it impossible to follow the trail once it reached the road.
I guess that's fair enough. I wasn't thinking the Observatory was "Diamond Lake", but I suppose it is. Thanks!
Did anyone else have to deal with this? What does everyone recommend?
I'm guessing the DC is 15 (Soft Ground) + 7 (a week has passed) -1 (4 creatures being tracked) + 5 (assuming Rastophan the evil ranger hides their tracks) for a grand total of 26. I don't see any reason why our party's ranger can't take 20, and with 5 ranks in Survival and a decent wisdom score he's going to make this. Am I totally off on this? I'm surprised there was no mention of this in the module.
well, as for taking 20 on a survival check... hope that ranger is 3rd level (or has the endurance feat already), as it will take 20 hours to achieve that result... this is definitely one of the things i'm trying to discipline my group with: there are times to take 20, take 10, and others when it's just the luck o' the dice. this is definitely not a 'brute-force-able' solution, and as others have pointed out, it will quickly lead to diamond lake's other areas (which are more heavily trafficked).
grymrayne