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[Wulf's BARAKUS FOLLIES] LOST CITY OF BARAKUS TPK...?
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<blockquote data-quote="Scorch" data-source="post: 1650390" data-attributes="member: 1502"><p>As Pogre noted earlier: I am currently running Barakus for the Meepites. So with that here are my two cents:</p><p></p><p>My hook was that the party were guards for a trading caravan coming down the Fool's Pass. It allowed me to throw some random encounters at them and get my feet wet since it has been years since I ran anything. My favorite encounter was the red dragon which I used as your typical scare the heck out of the players encounter.</p><p></p><p>This was to get them to Endhome. From there I had an idea of the first three adventures I wanted to run them through (Pogre's adventure, the wererats, and the Fell Tree Bandits). I wanted to get them up to 2nd level before allowing them to even consider find Barakus. During the Fell Tree Bandits they took a course through the forest which led them through the Gribbons, the Hidden Crypt and a few others. I took the book's advice and halved their XP so they would not rocket right up the levels and only now, after five adventures have they hit second and they are eager to get into the dungeon crawl.</p><p></p><p>That being said I was a little wary that I would have TPKs on my hand. The wererats were close but I gave them a patron in the form of Father Beamus who happened to have some silver weapons they can borrow if they agreed to rescue someone who had been kidnapped by them. It got pretty close but after the second wererat fell the tides turned and I started rolling garbage on the D20 and everyone else started rolling well.</p><p></p><p>I was also concerned about the bandits but at that point they were second level. Fortunately the fighter rolled a crit and dropped the leader in one hit but then she and the rogue got knocked down to zero when the bandits, under the command of the dwarf fighter started beating on them. Eventually the party pulled through and with their leaders down the rest of the three surviving bandits either ran or surrendered. A fun battle.</p><p></p><p>Scorch</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scorch, post: 1650390, member: 1502"] As Pogre noted earlier: I am currently running Barakus for the Meepites. So with that here are my two cents: My hook was that the party were guards for a trading caravan coming down the Fool's Pass. It allowed me to throw some random encounters at them and get my feet wet since it has been years since I ran anything. My favorite encounter was the red dragon which I used as your typical scare the heck out of the players encounter. This was to get them to Endhome. From there I had an idea of the first three adventures I wanted to run them through (Pogre's adventure, the wererats, and the Fell Tree Bandits). I wanted to get them up to 2nd level before allowing them to even consider find Barakus. During the Fell Tree Bandits they took a course through the forest which led them through the Gribbons, the Hidden Crypt and a few others. I took the book's advice and halved their XP so they would not rocket right up the levels and only now, after five adventures have they hit second and they are eager to get into the dungeon crawl. That being said I was a little wary that I would have TPKs on my hand. The wererats were close but I gave them a patron in the form of Father Beamus who happened to have some silver weapons they can borrow if they agreed to rescue someone who had been kidnapped by them. It got pretty close but after the second wererat fell the tides turned and I started rolling garbage on the D20 and everyone else started rolling well. I was also concerned about the bandits but at that point they were second level. Fortunately the fighter rolled a crit and dropped the leader in one hit but then she and the rogue got knocked down to zero when the bandits, under the command of the dwarf fighter started beating on them. Eventually the party pulled through and with their leaders down the rest of the three surviving bandits either ran or surrendered. A fun battle. Scorch [/QUOTE]
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