I don't know why I'm letting this bug me as much as it is...but it is.
Has anybody taken a good look at Allustan's skills (Encounter at Blackwall Keep, reiterated in Gathering of Winds)? By my math he has 73 skill points. Knock off 11 of those points for bieng an 8th level human (4 at 1st + 1 for the next 7) leaving 62 points. None of the schemes I've tried add up to those 62 points. If he had an 18 INT all along, that would give him 66; if he had a 17 originally and added the 18th point at 4th level, that would give him 60.
Obviously, it's not a big issue. It's both easy to fix and unlikely to matter. I'm more worried that I'm doing something wrong or missing something.
I don't have the Overload or the modules handy, but it's possible that some of his skills got a little bump from synergy bonuses, i.e. 5 ranks in Knowledge:Arcana=+2 bonus to spellcraft.
I'm an idiot :(
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I don't have the Overload or the modules handy, but it's possible that some of his skills got a little bump from synergy bonuses, i.e. 5 ranks in Knowledge:Arcana=+2 bonus to spellcraft.I'm an idiot :(
Don't worry about, we all miss stuff like that occasionally. It wasn't until after I posted that i realized that was the exact amount your counts were off by.
Different subject, same guy: When the PCs rescue him from the globe trap in Gathering of Winds, how does he return to Diamond Lake? After all, he went into the Cairn to escape the dragon...
Different subject, same guy: When the PCs rescue him from the globe trap in Gathering of Winds, how does he return to Diamond Lake? After all, he went into the Cairn to escape the dragon...
Well, I think the adventure assumes that the PCs kill Ilthane before going into the Cairn in search of Allustan, so he should technically be able to just stroll back out of the portal and walk back to what's left of Diamond Lake.
Makes sense. I was so consumed with my version of the portal, I forgot the obvious. What I mean by that is in IMC, the portal is a one-way device: there is no device when the PCs emerge on the other side. I plan on having them transported to DL in the last room when the adventure climaxes.
The easy answer is that the portal goes both ways - that's the way it seems to work in the book. Way back in the Whispering Cairn they stated that "visitors" could travel between the tombs to pay their respects when they were created.
If you've already stated in your campaign that this is not the case, then the next easiest solution would be to give Allustan another one of his infamous Teleport scrolls. Your players will probably ask why he didn't use it to get back to town when Ilthane showed up, but you can always say that he planned on using the dragon's appearance as an excuse to continue his exploration, figuring that the dragon would get bored and leave.