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It was all true. It was as bad as everyone on these forums has said it is.
At the end of it, 20 Prestige points and 1280 gold for Raise Dead and Restoration spells for my druid alone.
I'm just glad that the scenario is out of the way, and it seems like my druid's Pathfinder Career is prompting them to absolutely loath and despise the undead.
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The ghast is supposed to stay in his room and wait for you
There is a ghoul (Baeleen) in the rubble that ambushes you, but one ghoul shouldn't have done all that.
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This is the entrance to Sevenfingers’s tomb. Though
mostly shrouded by the strangler fig’s entangling roots,
a Medium creature can easily squeeze past them as a
full-round action, and a Small creature simply treats the
opening as difficult terrain. A Large creature must hack
away at some of the roots (hardness 5, 50 hit points, Break
DC 26) to create a large enough opening. A Huge or larger
creature cannot fit through the crack. With a successful
DC 25 Escape Artist check, a creature can move through
the roots as though it were one size category smaller.
A Large creature must hack
away at some of the roots (hardness 5, 50 hit points, Break
DC 26) to create a large enough opening. A Huge or larger
creature cannot fit through the crack. With a successful
DC 25 Escape Artist check, a creature can move through
the roots as though it were one size category smaller.
Carry companion is handy for those situations though
One ghast waits in the room... and will even talk to you if your party is so inclined. One Ghoul is in the rubble room.
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** spoiler omitted **
Tier 4-5, so Stinky had buddies. And the GM only asked for escape artist checks, which I couldn't get high enough.
Seems rather cheesy that Carry Companion is in a book centered around non-spellcasters. I could have prepared Reduce Animal if the party had waited, but they all refused.
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That...is weird. As Flutter said, one Ghoul is behind the rubble and always alone. The Ghast waits in another room, and while accompanied by Ghouls and Festrogs should not attack you unless you piss him off or attack him.
It's explicitly stated that he waits until the party removed the rubble, hoping they become fatigued in the progress before he talks to them.
Though knowing pathfinders, this behaviour will probably result in a fireball to the face in most groups.
Venture-Lieutenant, Netherlands—Leiden
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I found this to be a pretty tough scenario myself, but we played with a level 3 alchemist (mine, fairly optimized), level 3 fighter (not optimized), level 4 barbarian (well-built) and a Lem 4 pregen (tragically unoptimized). So we played high tier with 4 player adjustment. Also we cleared the entire dungeon in a single day, rather than the three days that the mission briefing gives you.
It was pretty dicey for us. We were one attack roll of the boss away from TPK when I finally managed to turn things around. It's pretty rare that I go through all my vast stacks of consumables.
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For us it was an level 4 brawler (not optimized), a level 4 barbarian/cavalier (a fighting monstrosity), my level 4 rogue/wizard/snakebite striker (going towards arcane trickster) and pregen Kyra level 4 (the only reason we survived).
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When I ran it it was for a newly created lvl 1 rogue, a lvl 2 oracle, a lvl 2 sorceress and a pregen swasbuckler.
In the end the oracle died in the big room. But her body was put to good use...
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The last fight was incredibly dicey with half the party paralyzed at any particular time. My sorcerer drawing his attention with a hail of magic missiles kept the rest of the party from being paralyzed and eventually wore away enough to kill him. One missed save against paralysis would probably have been the end of Able (again).
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They blew away everything feasting on the tumor, and quickly realized it was susceptible to the infinite amount of fire damage they could dish out.
They RPed with the Ghast through the door, which the two Fighters kept shut while the Kineticists went to town.
I figured the Ghast couldn't just sit idly by while they destroyed their food source, so I was forced to fight through a bottleneck.
One person did get paralyzed, but literally everyone in the party was of a class with a good base Fort save.
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The higher tier of this scenario is quite difficult, however the lower tier is about standard in terms of difficultly.
It is definitely an action packed scenario (it has many encounters) which will make table time at conventions tight, but I have thoroughly enjoyed both playing and running this scenario.
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I ran this scenario last week at our FLGS and I was kind of shocked at how easily the group handled things, actually.
Granted, this was in the low tier, but when I saw the group make up on Warhorn... Level 2 Barbarian, Level 1 Bloodrager, Level 1 petless hunter and Level 2 Swashalier... I thought they might be in for a rough time, but the session turned into a fun, exciting romp style action adventure, in the vein of many gore/horror/action movies or video games.
They fought everything... set off every trap... fell into the water. I mean, if something could go wrong, it did, but they still finished everything in a single day of in game time, and very quickly real time.
I enjoyed it thoroughly and the players all seemed to as well. I found it to be a great opportunity for a fun, gory, splat-fest and it certainly lived up to that. Our session would have made an awesome B movie or SyFy exclusive.
RPG Superstar 2010 Top 16
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Level 3 Ninja in a well-balanced party on high tier. First encounter was very dicey. My character went unconscious from heavy damage. I was fine with that. I would even have been fine with dying, if it had come to that. But I initially failed my saving throw against permanent death, and only succeeded because of my folio re-roll. Honestly, I didn't think that was cool. It's unfair to expect a 3rd-level character to have access to resurrection.
Venture-Captain, Germany—Rhein Main South
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Yes i hate some of the tactics in the higher tier, the use of one spell in the first encounter in particular.
The scenario seems to be very dicy indeed and very ugly at some points.
When I ran it at a local gameday i had the worst possible Group tier wise: only 5 lv1s with no XP and i expected a TPK. But the group did manage it by a very interesting Combination of Sneaky ambush (first encounter) and oldscool Trap disarming to survive inside the tomb. There it went very well, they got to the hall and critted very well in the first rounds and they got to the final encounter immediately after destroying the Polyp so thy had an way too easy endfight
If it wasnt for good rolls i would expect a TPK for sure. It may have helped that the party was pretty optimised builds with 2 zen archers, 1 Cleric, 1 Alchemist and 1 druid but it was still much too close for a lowtier 1-5 scenario. I pitty those who must run it in between tiers. In my Opionion this is a scenario that should almost never played up.
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My party did fairly well, until the squishy DPS got stunned in the doorway, leaving my bloodrager alone in a room of undead. At which point she happily went to town, and I am soooo taking Cleave later...
I also got an evil mark for telling the boss that if he let us leave I would bring him a boatload of Chelaxian slaves as offerings (it wasn't a bluff). At which point the Liberty's Edge character got offended, and since he couldn't Scorching Ray me, he Scorching Rayed the boss. The discussion went downhill from there.
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Hmm, our party managed to blitz the boss, our Paladin (I think) moving up to it and taking it out in 1 or 2 turns while the rest of us dealt with the other enemies. The ghast/ghoul in the secret room was tougher due to the more cramped conditions meaning that only 2 of our 3 or 4 melee characters could get in and help out.
