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Yes, we discussed both of those things for if we were going to play it a third time, namely the tentacles coming through the hull or through the hatches above. But the DM decided to play it "as written" that time. We discussed that, and it's a "how does magic work in your world" discussion...

I played this the last two weeks with Tony Vargas. Our first time through, none of us knew anything about the module except that it involved pirates and two encounters. Our party of 5 spent about 5 hours but had to stop due to the store closing. We did not finish the second encounter, and...

[This is a modified version of something that I've posted previously.] About 2 years ago, I DMed KotS and the motivation for going to the Dragon Burial Site is one of the big problems with the module, and is what started me down the path of modifying it. I made a bunch of changes throughout the...

While this hasn't been touched on, this thread would suggest that Wardens (due to Font of Life) would get 2 death saving throws per turn, and only if BOTH failed would it count as a "strike". Furthermore, if they succeeded on the death roll the first time, they could use the second for some...

Looking here Store & Event Locator - Wizards of the Coast, there is a Lair Assault location about 76 miles away in Osaka, and you have an FLGS in Nagoya, Japan called "イエローサブマリン名古屋店" ("Nagoya Yellow Submarine"). You could ask your FLGS to run Lair Assault or run it there yourself!

I haven't found any errata or clarification on the ordering of Start of Turn actions. I remember reading here about a year ago that the player was free to reorder damage and regeneration, typically taking regeneration first to avoid unconsciousness. My situation I'd like to reorder is the...

One of my fellow players says: As a note about the minions, it was actually 10 damage each, and the handler had gone before the hell-hound and given all the minions a buff, which is why they had 10 instead of their normal damage. In that case, after fire resistance, they were doing 7 damage...

The drenched-in-oil minions we faced definitely did somewhere in the 15-19 range, but I don't recall the exact number. I had 50 HPs, resist 3 fire (originally resist 6 fire), and got hit by about half of the 9 attacks (hellhound + 8 minions), and ended up at -10 or so when the attacks were...

Our group found it clever of the DM and a challenge for us and completely in the spirit of Lair Assault. We now have to think about how to defeat that strategy for next week (such as through initiative bonuses). We knew what the minions were (some of us encountered some of them in the first...

I play at Tony's store (Illusive Comics & Games in Santa Clara, CA), and actually, Lair Assault has turned out fine. The first week, we ran two tables with 5 players each. Second week had 5 players. Third was 7 players (which actually went OK). Fourth was 5 players. Tony Vargas DMed all 4...

Where are you? Your tag says "Nagoya, Japan", and on the Wizards site (Store & Event Locator - Wizards of the Coast), Japan has 106 game stores (mostly Magic), 6 of whom run Encounders (closest 75 miles), and 2 with Lair Assault (closest 130 miles). I doubt that there's anyplace on Earth...

I asked our DM why he didn't just put all of the monsters in the final room and he mentioned that there were limitations, but he did not think that there was a limitation of 4 monsters (or maybe minions don't count?) in the first room. In the first room, he had 1 hellhound, 1 dog handler (don't...

As I understood the minions, when they're reduced to 0 HPs, they get a "suicide bomb run" of move 5 and then explode. So, unless the minions were far from you, they should have been able to attack you in that way when you killed them. For us, the upon-death was activated when the hellhound...

We assaulted the lair a fourth time, this time on Nightmare mode and with Tony Vargas acting as an "evil" GM. We were trying for a speed run with characters all the same race. Summary: Two out of five of us were down before even acting, and the others by the end of the third round. We played...

Our third attempt was yesterday and we did quite well, but the DM wasn't being "evil". We had basically the same characters and took the same lava room route as the second attempt, but avoided some of the problems we had last time. At the end, only the two defenders were bloodied, and while we...

Note that the Augmenting Whetstone (+2) is a Level 6 Consumable, and thus not valid for Lair Assault. However, a case could certainly be made for taking it instead of one of the 3 magic items (specifically the Level 6 one). In fact, I was thinking of doing that along with a +1 weapon (with a...

I haven't read the module, but both DMs that I ran it with also had damage at the origin of a teleport, and I think it was also a burst 3 for 10 fire damage. So given that, I think that it must be written in there somewhere. We actually used it against the baddies a bit, though we were also...

Our second time through was basically a win. We ran out of real-world time because the store was closing, but we were down to just the main baddie and all but one of us was at full HPs (and some temp HPs) with a zone of regeneration and 5 rounds left. So, we were probably going to win (though...

I totally missed the +STR against marked enemies when in Form of Mountain's Thunder. I've only used that character a few times and had never used that daily before. "Know your character." Although I'm still interested in how they got up into the 30s. The Maw of Guardian is limited to...

Can you describe how you did that? My warden was nowhere near as good. While it sounds like we both used Boiling Cloud (which explains your "little cloud of permanent concealment" and "4 at the start of the enemy's turn"), my damage was only 1d8+6 (~10) with a +1 long sword (Storm Biter...