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<blockquote data-quote="Valdier" data-source="post: 7048397" data-attributes="member: 4556"><p>This isn't true at all. The prison break is not a fight scene. A level 1, or level 5 party will be slaughtered if they try to do this as a combat on the face of it. This complex in full battle status is a deadly encounter for 4 5th level characters, let alone 4 1st levels.</p><p></p><p>5 Elite Warriors,</p><p>Drow Priestess</p><p>Priest</p><p>12 Quaggoth</p><p>6 Giant Spiders</p><p></p><p>It would be a reasonably hard fight for 10th level characters, if not a completely deadly one. </p><p></p><p>So, no, starting at 5th level changes nothing, nor does it invalidate half the module. If every encounter your players encounter must be super challenging, then yes, it might be a bit slow. You won't like this module if you just want to run it by the numbers though. This is a sandbox setting with lots of encounters pre-built and some narrative encompassing it all for the meta-plot.</p><p></p><p>You *must* do work as a DM if you are planning to run this. Period. No questions. If that isn't your cup of tea, you want to run an adventure-by-the-numbers setting, do not play this, it won't work. It was never designed to.</p><p>[ATTACH]81949[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Valdier, post: 7048397, member: 4556"] This isn't true at all. The prison break is not a fight scene. A level 1, or level 5 party will be slaughtered if they try to do this as a combat on the face of it. This complex in full battle status is a deadly encounter for 4 5th level characters, let alone 4 1st levels. 5 Elite Warriors, Drow Priestess Priest 12 Quaggoth 6 Giant Spiders It would be a reasonably hard fight for 10th level characters, if not a completely deadly one. So, no, starting at 5th level changes nothing, nor does it invalidate half the module. If every encounter your players encounter must be super challenging, then yes, it might be a bit slow. You won't like this module if you just want to run it by the numbers though. This is a sandbox setting with lots of encounters pre-built and some narrative encompassing it all for the meta-plot. You *must* do work as a DM if you are planning to run this. Period. No questions. If that isn't your cup of tea, you want to run an adventure-by-the-numbers setting, do not play this, it won't work. It was never designed to. [ATTACH=CONFIG]81949._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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