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<blockquote data-quote="Dessert Nomad" data-source="post: 7523373" data-attributes="member: 6976536"><p>It's a random outdoor encounter in all 3 modules, nothing to do with the plot at all. That's part of what makes it stick out to me, if it was a climactic encounter that's one thing, but this is just a 'you might encounter this in the desert on your way to the meat of the adventure'. That's what I was thinking, a less capable version wouldn't take away from the module at all but wouldn't be 'welp, unimportant random encounter wiped the party, lets start a new campaign'. I wouldn't worry about a higher level party dealing with it at all.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I disagree, it's fine to sneeze at save or die attacks that can't actually be used against you! RAW the 1e version (at least in the MM edition that I have) can only use the tail if it's fighting a larger than usual group, so it wouldn't be a factor. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's theoretical at this point - this is the first set of conversion PDFs I've bought and I was looking at what they did in it. I've got a number of old modules that I might get PDFs of and use for 5e (though I'll probably pass on the infamous Forest Oracle), and I want to get an idea of how much I can trust them. There isn't an actual party in question right now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dessert Nomad, post: 7523373, member: 6976536"] It's a random outdoor encounter in all 3 modules, nothing to do with the plot at all. That's part of what makes it stick out to me, if it was a climactic encounter that's one thing, but this is just a 'you might encounter this in the desert on your way to the meat of the adventure'. That's what I was thinking, a less capable version wouldn't take away from the module at all but wouldn't be 'welp, unimportant random encounter wiped the party, lets start a new campaign'. I wouldn't worry about a higher level party dealing with it at all. I disagree, it's fine to sneeze at save or die attacks that can't actually be used against you! RAW the 1e version (at least in the MM edition that I have) can only use the tail if it's fighting a larger than usual group, so it wouldn't be a factor. It's theoretical at this point - this is the first set of conversion PDFs I've bought and I was looking at what they did in it. I've got a number of old modules that I might get PDFs of and use for 5e (though I'll probably pass on the infamous Forest Oracle), and I want to get an idea of how much I can trust them. There isn't an actual party in question right now. [/QUOTE]
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