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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arlough" data-source="post: 5453323" data-attributes="member: 79335">Maptools is awesome.  I use it for my games all the time now.  I just hook up one computer to the TV, and run the DM map on a separate screen.Anyway, here is...Encounter 3: Knock knock...I have already mentioned the rewards for success in encounter 2, or the price of failure.   Aside from that, this encounter looks good.  The only things that I would maybe change is having one type of trap (to make your job easier) and having all the enemies be per-determined, and fully healed, and just flavor it with “that one looks like the one that put an arrow in your shoulder, and that one is the guy that hit you in the face” rather than keeping track of HP, surges, and ammo from the first encounter.  But that is just my “the DM has more crap to keep track of than anyone else” attitude.  Really, this is a well designed encounter.  Just don't be surprised at least one player wants more map drawn on the sides so his ranger/thief can scout/sneak around and get some sort of advantage.That one was so easy, I think I will go on to encounter 4.Encounter 4: Beware of DogsI would just pick a spot for the archer to be.  Somewhere where he has cover from the opening barrage, so he can dramatically sprint towards the kennel.  Adventurers are awesome, and they will know not only that there are dogs over there, but where the dogs are.Now, while I've loved using wolves myself, I will still say this now loud and clear.BEWARE OF DOGS!Does that seem ominous enough?The damage output of dogs and wolves (I am guessing you built the Pack Leader by dropping a Gray Wolf by one level, and then made the rest of the dogs by turning the leader into a minion) is fairly low, but that knockdown ability, plus the extra damage output as a result of that makes them more dangerous than they initially seem.  Since you have made most of them minions, this may not be a problem.  But I would suggest you become comfortable with mucking the dogs attack rolls, so if you need them to, they miss.Also, give your poor swordsmen some swords.  Those clubs are just embarrassing.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" />Overall, this is looking really good.</blockquote>

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