General Information
Difficulty: Challenging, but not impossible.
The Party: Everyone is at level 5, 10 point stat build, half expected wealth.
Ranger, Witch Hunter, Inquistor and a Fighter.
Terrain/situation: Basically the same as this guy*s homemade terrain.
Goal: Find a way to get past the gap or cross the bridge before it gets lifted up. The players are at the other side of the bridge controls.
Player Knowledge: All of them have some experience, but don't know their characters abilities by heart.
I sort of want to use orcs (advanced), but I have no idea how challenging they should be, or how many there should be on each side.
Maybe use big creatures like owlbears or ogres on the player side of the bridge, and bandits or something on the other side that fires arrows against them, but makes the bridge go up after they defeated the owlbears?
Also, does anyone have an idea of how the characters can get over the gap without the bridge? What if they don't make over the bridge before it's lifted? None of the magic users can show up for the session, so teleport spells are out of the question :p
Edit: For some reason, Paizo wouldn't let me edit my post wut .o
How about this suggestion:
2 Owlbears are at the players side of the bridge, they are being controlled by a neutral evil Druid on the other side.
Since they will face more enemies on the other side (and the druid might not be close for the first combat encounter) maybe the owlbears should be young? That would make the first encounter be CR3+CR 3 = CR 5 right?
I like this druid's stat a lot. [url=http://www.thegm.org/npcs_display.php?selected_npc=651][/url]
Then have the druid have some bodyguards, maybe a couple of wolves +1HD?
That encounter would be CR5+CR2+CR2 = CR 6 ish?
At least two of my players have silver arrows, so the DR shouldn't be too difficult :)
Don't be afraid of suggesting monsters and strategies :)