Recent content by TopCat

This post is full of spoilers and intended for DMs so any players that are here: nothing to see here, move on... OK, so my group have played through about the first half of book 3, but wait, they're actually more like 70% through! They've completed the "Vanguard" chapter and correctly...

Yeah, you've got problems there. Personally, I'd not have let them get as far with the assault plan as they did, but you're obviously beyond that now. I think you have to throw the book at them. Execute them all. Then have the mayor raise them (-1 level all round) at the node in the city...

Mine spent a day or two scouting out the bank, decided it was too difficult and so talked to Lord Malthus. They had good diplomacy/bluff skills so I allowed them to negotiate a deal where he could get the remaining signature items for them at a cost of pretty much everything that the party had...

The last thing that a sorcerer needs is more spells per day! In my party the only person who never runs out of spells to cast is the sorcerer. If I'd given him a staff that cast spells he'd never need it unless it was able to cast spells that he doesn't know. TC

My sorcerer has a cloak for his signature item. You can pretty much use the armour table for all the powers it can have. The only difference is that any +s that get put on the cloak are resistance bonuses to saving throws rather than AC bonuses. TC

Hmm, Wind Walk doesn't make you invisible or invulnerable. Dragons and Undead would certainly be able to see them and would almost certainly attack. With 5 rounds of being attacked and unable to attack back while they revert back to solid form it's not a tactic I would be trying in either of...

Yes, I'm finding that. They seem especially powerful against drow. Even the hardest drow in Traitor's Gambit went down in only a couple of rounds. And that was after I'd beefed them up (+2 CON, +2 Strength, max HP). One of the problems was the drow ACs. A lot of the soldiers in the mine...

I expected my group to go straight to the Temple but when they got to Crescent City they got the tingle from the item hidden in the Thieves' Maze so decided to track that one down first. I've long since come to expect the unexpected from my players! TC

I decided to treat them as artifacts (which they are) for the purposes of determining what can damage them and how easily they get damaged. I was particularly worried by the black pudding in the Temple of Kharad but, in the end, nobody had their weapon dropped into it. TC

Yeah, my players didn't realise that at the start and got quite a surprise when I explained it to them. As a result, only 1 character out of 6 has taken levels in a class other than their initial one as they all want a taste of epic classes. The one that has diversified (the cleric) took all 5...

Saragost fell. And quickly too. It was the party's fault, to an extent. They'd done well enough alerting the villages to have a decent chance of holding the city. I'd sent them to the bomb warehouse, but on the day before the battle, so I decided that the cart had already been moved...

The druid's shield gets bonuses from the Shield special abilities table. For abilities with GP value I just picked an appropriate points cost. Being a druid, he's currently got "Wild" and all the remaining points are spent on plusses. The sorcerers cloak gets bonuses from the Armour special...

I asked my characters to pick one item they would most like (without explaining why) before the first session. I gave them a choice of a weapon, armour or shield. My party of 6 went for Fighter - Axe Barbarian - Greatsword Cleric - Hammer Rogue - Shortsword Druid - Shield Sorcerer - Cloak I...

I was starting to get a few muttered complaints about the lack of magic items about half-way through book 1. I resisted the temptation to throw in a few, instead pointing out all the items that the party had missed up to that point (they didn't find any of the magic items in the Colombe...

Interesting. How do you plan on reconciling the concept of a "future equinox" with what happens at the end of book 3? Or even at the end of book 2, thinking about it! TC