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(Spoilers) My experience with Reavers of Harkenwold - Updated
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<blockquote data-quote="Nemesis Destiny" data-source="post: 5737380" data-attributes="member: 98255"><p><strong>Encounter D4</strong></p><p></p><p>Back to the regularly scheduled module... sort of.</p><p></p><p>I heard bad things about the glimmerweb spider in this battle, so I got rid of it. I also had the players come into this one from the west side of the map - through the doors the module suggests you use to add a bigger dungeon for exploring after the encounter. I did it the opposite way. I had the area on my microdungon map labelled 'crypt' lead to those doors.</p><p></p><p>Yisarn knew they were coming. The spectre told him. I also added two more skeletons to the battle. In addition, I made Yisarn insubstantial - I was finding that with the focus-fire ability of 6 PCs it was hard to keep even elite monsters alive long enough to be scary. To compensate for the added challenge, I had the altar with the dragon on it represent a slab with the ritually laid out remains of Yisarn. Attacking it would cause him damage with the extra benefit that it was considered helpless and really easy to hit. Nobody took advantage. Oh, and when the PCs showed up, Yisarn "zapped" the spectre, and turned it into a Wraith, at full hit points.</p><p></p><p>This was a tough fight for the group. Satisfyingly tough. They did prevail without any deaths, but several PCs had dropped in this fight and their resources were stretched pretty thin. Some of that was probably due to their questionable tactics - two of the group went one way around the pillar, while the other two went the opposite way, and two remained in the back (hunter and sorcerer). I forgot to use Yisarn's immediate reaction half the time. I have a lot of trouble with that on monsters.</p><p></p><p>I modified him thusly: </p><p><img src="http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/327/c/d/ysarn_by_nemesisdestiny-d4h3sby.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://worldofmyrth.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/ysarn1.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>The PCs hit level 3 after this fight.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nemesis Destiny, post: 5737380, member: 98255"] [b]Encounter D4[/b] Back to the regularly scheduled module... sort of. I heard bad things about the glimmerweb spider in this battle, so I got rid of it. I also had the players come into this one from the west side of the map - through the doors the module suggests you use to add a bigger dungeon for exploring after the encounter. I did it the opposite way. I had the area on my microdungon map labelled 'crypt' lead to those doors. Yisarn knew they were coming. The spectre told him. I also added two more skeletons to the battle. In addition, I made Yisarn insubstantial - I was finding that with the focus-fire ability of 6 PCs it was hard to keep even elite monsters alive long enough to be scary. To compensate for the added challenge, I had the altar with the dragon on it represent a slab with the ritually laid out remains of Yisarn. Attacking it would cause him damage with the extra benefit that it was considered helpless and really easy to hit. Nobody took advantage. Oh, and when the PCs showed up, Yisarn "zapped" the spectre, and turned it into a Wraith, at full hit points. This was a tough fight for the group. Satisfyingly tough. They did prevail without any deaths, but several PCs had dropped in this fight and their resources were stretched pretty thin. Some of that was probably due to their questionable tactics - two of the group went one way around the pillar, while the other two went the opposite way, and two remained in the back (hunter and sorcerer). I forgot to use Yisarn's immediate reaction half the time. I have a lot of trouble with that on monsters. I modified him thusly: [IMG]http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/327/c/d/ysarn_by_nemesisdestiny-d4h3sby.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://worldofmyrth.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/ysarn1.png[/IMG] The PCs hit level 3 after this fight. [/QUOTE]
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