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All I have just completed DM'ing the Treasure of Talon Pass (WoTC free adventure from RPG Day for 2nd level characters). The party consisted of 5 2nd level characters (a good mix), who had had a relatively easy time in the dungeon until finding the Black Dragon on the 2nd level. The party had...

I purchased CastleWorks Ultimate (CWU) just over a year ago and have been using the PDFs ever since. What you get for your $15 are a staggering variety of PDFs, which when, printed, cut, scored, folded and glued, will give you a collection of modular 3D castle pieces that should enable you to...

Bernadus Please read this thread http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=106333&page=1 For why I think that a (or at least my) 19th level party would slaughter Ashardalon, unless you played the Blasphemy trick on them, which doesn't really seem fair. Post #84 in that thread will tell...

Thanks guys, I stand corrected on the DCs of SLAs. As Plane Sailing pointed out, that still leaves Blasphemy as a TPK spell no save (apart from SR) as caster level = hd. I am actuallly of the view that I'll make Ashardalon a "1/4 fiend" and give him the additional ability bonuses and natural...

Warning ! Bastion of Broken Souls Spoilers Below ! Hmmm. I'm thinking of keeping the Dydd effect but modifying it so the party doesn't get a free round. Cleric spells are a must. MJ seems a little rough to me. I think I am going to give it to him but adopt a policy that if...

Ah yes, but that was before I realised the true horror :eek: of shapechange ;) I am running the module next Thu, so only have a week to re-write :\ I think it'll be alright. I have plenty of ideas from this thread. Frank

A small problemette in converting Ashardalon 1) He is a 40HD half fiend 2) Half fiends above 11th level get Blasphemy as an SLA 3) Half fiends use hit dice as caster level for SLAs 4) In 3.5 if the recipients of blasphemy are 10 hd or more lower than the caster, they die. No saving throw...

Ooops. I just hit a big problem with Ashardalon in conversion to 3.5 1) Ashardalon is a 40HD red dragon half fiend 2) half fiends of 11th level or higher get Blasphemy as a SLA 3) half fiends use their hit dice as caster level for SLAs 4) Blasphemy has changed in 3.5 so that if victims in the...

Now you are talking my language :)

Hmmm, I'd better explain. My group and I play only 4 times a year - for 3 days solid each time. A group of 8 of us have been meeting up like this since we left college over 20 years ago. We take it in turns to host and DM. We have several parties on the go (several more retired), the highest...

Saeviomagy With the greatest respect, you mean it's not the way you'd go. I understand the sentiment and perhaps you read into it that I was going to add 20 levels of fighter to every monster. I'm not (although actually there are monsters down the dungeon who will easily hit that A/C - just...

And that's another day of mine made. Well done Hypersmurf. Frank

Gwarok Thanks for the sound advice. I absolutely agree that banning the spell (which would require a majority vote in my DM heavy rpg group) is not the way forward. Having got over the shock of A/C 54, 200hp, DR15, SR32 party members, I am warming to the challenge. You are right in that it...

Good point Batman ! This simply makes him less likely to catch the party though. If I were him, at the start of each combat I would simply teleport to an area where I would catch most baddies and no party members and switch the fear aura on as a free action. After all, at A/C 54, 200hp, DR15...

Hong As you state, Pitfiends have the Evil sub-type, but Shapechange says nothing about gaining the sub-type, simply the type (in this case Outsider). The character retains his original alignment which is definitely non-evil. Also much of the module takes place off the Material Plane. Hence...

Bog standard Pitfiend I'm afraid. Frank

Sanishiver Thanks very much for taking the time to post (that applies to everyone I haven't replied to as well). Some good food for thought here. Basically, my problem is that I don't think the dungeon has been written with your perspective on Shapechange. I truly can see the fun element...

Saeviomagy Agreed wholeheartedly on the change to the DC of Fear. Thanks very much. I tend to agree on the dogmeat comment for creatures of will save +8, but I didn't write the dungeon, Bruce Cordell did. I'm going to have to go though the dungeon and tweak levels, wisdom ability scores and...

What a fabulous suggestion. I can't tell you how much this made my day. BTW, I appreciate all the mails about Fear, but with a 3 hour duration on Shapechange, I know how my party will play it. First the Sorcerer will shapechange into a pitfiend somewhere where a Fear failure won't matter...

Guys Excellent points all. A few replies of my own to some of them :- 1) (To Klaus) Thanks for the pointers on the mechanics of Shapechange. - I agree that the spell lasts 3 hours. I think this is excessive. - I agree that you gain Su and Ex abilities (but not SLAs). Also, you lose your...