Quah-Kael Confusion...

[Ultradan]

The feeding grounds of the great Cindermaw...

Thousand-Bones says it's located at the northern most part of their lands, but on the map it is located at the south-western part of the badlands.

Where is it exactly? lol

Ultradan

[NobodysHome]

I just made it up as in the southwest. Getting eaten by Cindermaw was a low point in the whole AP. The paladin made all his saves, crit to get out, and it was a 1-round borefest.

Honestly, I had a bunch of wyverns attack the group and try to take out the truthspeaker, and that fight was a lot more fun than the Cindermaw encounter.

So put it somewhere where they can travel for 2-3 days to get to know the truthspeaker; that portion of the roleplaying was loads of fun. The Cindermaw encounter was pointless. The 2-3 day ride back was awesomeness as well.

Focus on the journey, not on the destination.

[graywulfe]

Wow. My party had a blast with the Cindermaw encounter. For one part, everyone wanted to do it and given

Spoiler:

that the encounter details that it is not hungry and therefore will not go straight for the Swallow Whole attack,

my party had to work at it.

Spoiler:

There were some amusing antics where certain party members threw themselves into its maw and failed to get eaten. All while avoiding killing the damn thing.

Oh and I went with the where the map showed it.

[NobodysHome]

graywulfe wrote:

Wow. My party had a blast with the Cindermaw encounter. For one part, everyone wanted to do it and given ** spoiler omitted ** my party had to work at it.

** spoiler omitted **

Oh and I went with the where the map showed it.

Oh, no; I can see some groups having a blast. My group was just, "We send the paladin out to deal with it," and he very quickly ticked it off enough that it ate him.

So I apologize for my bias/bitterness. But yeah, it's on one of the maps, and I just went with that.