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I have a couple of questions on the map ... specifically with the area marked A6.. it's listed as the lower corridor. How does this figure in to the area? I'm reading it and it's just not making sense.
I'm guessing (please correct me) that the pcs would walk from A1 to A4 and only hit the lower corridor if they trigger one of the traps. Then if they are traveling the lower corridor... from what I'm reading they have to open the doors from below??
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You are correct. A6 is under the other rooms, with the spiked squares lining up under the traps in each room.
If the PCs don't climb back out of the pit, then the only way to open the trapdoors is from below.
Ok .. so one could fall and be brought back up.. .. does that then drain the area so they see the other traps?
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Each room's water level is self-contained, so if you remove the water from the first room, it drains, but that would have no effect on the second flooded room. If either of the traps in the room that has two are triggered, all the water drains from the room, pulling PCs "down the drain", as detailed in the adventure.
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The normal fire affects can work underwater with a dc20+spell level caster level check as do other area affects such as stone call, ice storm etc or any of the fire spells that have been modified with an elemental feat.
When I played this scenario we drained the water and the leaches out of the room with several applications of the create pit spell. Then, we opened the traps, left the room, and waited for the duration of the spells to run out. When the duration ran out, the water and the leaches drained into the traps.
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How did your players deal with the leech swarm? How many ways are there to damage an underwater swarm?
We flushed the leech swarms down the pit traps (with the water), by purposely activating the traps. Not sure it was intended to be run that way, but I thought it was great. The guy activating the trap got kind of swarmed though, oh well.
I really liked this scenario. That is all. :)
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How did your players deal with the leech swarm? How many ways are there to damage an underwater swarm?
Have played it, am running it in about six weeks, but haven't read it yet.
Dwarf went into room. Dwarf was attacked by all four swarms in one round (this appears to be a regional approach to multiple swarms, as I haven't seen it done before). Dwarf flew out of room. We eventually opened the trap and let the water out. I don't recall exactly how...Convention gaming on third day and 4 hours sleep over prior two days don't exactly result in easily accessible memories.)
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Actually I had a question for anyone who has ran this. Needless to say Spoilers if any of you are reading this without planning to run it. In room A8 the mummies give off the 3d6 cold non lethal damage from the brown mold, the mold can only be dispersed by COLD damage? Is the scenario's creator just being tricky, or is that a mistake? How did groups anyone ran handle this?
Our group kited the mummy outside of the brown mold room. After the mummy we recovered and just ran through the brown mold room taking damage, since we didn't have anything that would kill it.
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Actually I had a question for anyone who has ran this. Needless to say Spoilers if any of you are reading this without planning to run it. In room A8 the mummies give off the 3d6 cold non lethal damage from the brown mold, the mold can only be dispersed by COLD damage? Is the scenario's creator just being tricky, or is that a mistake? How did groups anyone ran handle this?
Re: brown mold. It works as described in the adventure and it is not a trick. What makes it difficult is the combination with mummies since most will want to use fire if they have it on the mummies. Challenging set-up. For details on how Brown Mold works see pg. 416 of the Core Rulebook.
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One thing to realize is the encounter as-written has the brown mold actually attached to the mummy.
Right, after we beat the mummy we went to another location to recover, away from the body.
I believe there's another scenario or two involving Hao Jin's demi-plane, although I'm not sure they're going to be sequels per se. Moreland could tell you. :)
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Right now we have a number of scenarios set in the Hao Jin Tapestry throughout the rest of the season including the Rats of Round Mountain two-parter, The Icebound Outpost, Temple of Empyreal Enlightenment, Storming the Diamond Gate, and Portal of the Sacred Rune (though that one actually takes place outside the tapestry but concludes the conflict that starts in the Wonders in the Weave series).
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I actually don't understand how the boon works for part 2 here; it seems like it only applies to parts 1 and 2 of Wonders in the Weave, but obviously by the time you get it, you've finished those scenarios anyway?
Per Mark Moreland:
Right now we have a number of scenarios set in the Hao Jin Tapestry throughout the rest of the season including the Rats of Round Mountain two-parter, The Icebound Outpost, Temple of Empyreal Enlightenment, Storming the Diamond Gate, and Portal of the Sacred Rune (though that one actually takes place outside the tapestry but concludes the conflict that starts in the Wonders in the Weave series).
The boon will be applicable in these scenarios.
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One thing to realize is the encounter as-written has the brown mold actually attached to the mummy.Right, after we beat the mummy we went to another location to recover, away from the body.
I believe there's another scenario or two involving Hao Jin's demi-plane, although I'm not sure they're going to be sequels per se. Moreland could tell you. :)
There was also the fact that your character was immune to non-lethal cold damage helping you out. :P
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Hence my guess open war with the Aspis Consortium is on it's way! :-) I hope anyway. It sounds fun to me.
I, too, think an all-out war with the Aspis Consortium would be good for PFS. The Year of the Shadow Lodge story arc was very popular (in my area) because there was a clearly defined "enemy." I think that's missing from Season 3, and really hope this bit with the Aspis Consortium carries forward. The Before the Dawn series also had and "anti-Aspis" theme, and were very popular in my area. Seems like a theme to exploit. I'm glad this boon is fostering that idea.
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That combat with the mummies and brown mold ended up being very informative, as everyone needed to start checking into exactly how much Non-Lethal damage you could take before dying. Tons of fun to run at either tier!
Also, how many parties skipped the Puzzle Room by using the underground corridor? I'm 1 for 2.
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For the puzzle room, the second time I ran it I gave the party members on my right one of the sheets and the party members on my left the other sheet, but I didn't inform them the sheets were different. They actually took to figuring out a puzzle quite well, and I dropped hints until they put it together.