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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 4161864" data-attributes="member: 3400"><p>The Age of Worms is supposed to be a pretty challenging adventure path, though most of the people I've heard discuss it find the Spire of Long Shadows the really tough chapter.</p><p>In general, AoW has gotten lots of successful play, so I don't think there's any significant lack of playtesting.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The carrion crawler heads are hollowed out and full of some kind of carrion crawler brain poison. I'm not sure I'd consider dragon immunity to paralysis to be immunity to that. The paralysis special power is generally assumed to be magical, not poison. And the dragons aren't immune to poison.</p><p>But even if they were, the giants still have at least 2 other types of ammunition, including regular rocks and some harpoons. So, it's not like they're completely defenseless.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The fang dragon, which is out of Draconomicon, is supposed to be sent out to confront PCs in response to their successes. And then, if he gets a little blow half, he runs like hell and doesn't come back. He's an EL 19 encounter alone, which is how he's expected to be dealt with, as written in the mod. And he's got some significant magical defenses, but they're vulnerable to things like dispel magic to soften them up. </p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hey, why blame bad dice rolling (the dragon's SR was 29, not insurmountable when your caster level is 17), DMing mistakes, or the dubious tactics of a frontal assault when you can blame the module and monster designers? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> </p><p></p><p>A little more seriously, what did you expect? There are flights of dragons attacking giants. This ain't gonna be easy. How much information did the PCs get from a character with Know (arcana) about fang dragons? Did you have any pre-warning of how nasty it was? You found out first hand how nasty it was close up and persisted in trying to primarily fight it close up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="billd91, post: 4161864, member: 3400"] The Age of Worms is supposed to be a pretty challenging adventure path, though most of the people I've heard discuss it find the Spire of Long Shadows the really tough chapter. In general, AoW has gotten lots of successful play, so I don't think there's any significant lack of playtesting. The carrion crawler heads are hollowed out and full of some kind of carrion crawler brain poison. I'm not sure I'd consider dragon immunity to paralysis to be immunity to that. The paralysis special power is generally assumed to be magical, not poison. And the dragons aren't immune to poison. But even if they were, the giants still have at least 2 other types of ammunition, including regular rocks and some harpoons. So, it's not like they're completely defenseless. The fang dragon, which is out of Draconomicon, is supposed to be sent out to confront PCs in response to their successes. And then, if he gets a little blow half, he runs like hell and doesn't come back. He's an EL 19 encounter alone, which is how he's expected to be dealt with, as written in the mod. And he's got some significant magical defenses, but they're vulnerable to things like dispel magic to soften them up. Hey, why blame bad dice rolling (the dragon's SR was 29, not insurmountable when your caster level is 17), DMing mistakes, or the dubious tactics of a frontal assault when you can blame the module and monster designers? ;) A little more seriously, what did you expect? There are flights of dragons attacking giants. This ain't gonna be easy. How much information did the PCs get from a character with Know (arcana) about fang dragons? Did you have any pre-warning of how nasty it was? You found out first hand how nasty it was close up and persisted in trying to primarily fight it close up. [/QUOTE]
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