Arrogance is not part of emotional state, it's part of attitude. even calm people can be and can come off as arrogant.
Indeed, it could be argued that many who are the most calm are the most arrogant.
So, please, keep it substantial.
Simluation was never supposed to be about identifying a roll of the dice with every single possible episode of consciousness of every character in the world. Nor was simulation every supposed to be about assigning a roll of the die to every particle in the world to dertermine its position in...
You could do that or just replace the monster with more of the minion monsters from the same or similar encounters. You may actually want to replace some of the later minions in the game with easier minions from earlier in the game, too.
There are potions described in the adventure.
LOL. I...
I missed that it was only one person running five PCs. That makes a big difference. Unless you're like Abdominal who can stalemate in chess with God while playing Vishnu and Buddha on separate boards.
One way to reduce the solo encounter is to reduce the HPs to 2/5 of the current HP, take away one action point and take away a +1 to to hits and defenses. This (roughly) turns a solo into an elite. My copy of the adventure book is downstairs and I don't remember all the details of the...
Honestly, we in the fantasy community have got to start taking a good, hard look at the way gender is used in our media. There really isn't any good reason that I can think for continuing to have female-only medusae.
What I find interesting is that this is probably Sara Girard's PC, and she's said that she doesn't really use her Intimidate skill, but she likes having it there for the purposes of getting into the role-playing of the character. It's almost a shame to not put that +20 bonus to direct use. Even...
We have seen that martial characters can use unarmed as a "weapon". No word on whether or not there is a bonus to hit with that weapon and I can't remember the damage.