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<blockquote data-quote="Wraithdrit" data-source="post: 1327671" data-attributes="member: 10820"><p>In a thread in the rules forum someone said:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Which got me to thinking. You see, right now I am a little ticked off at my players. Two sessions ago they managed to sneak past a fairly dangerous encounter. They used Arcane Eye, saw a dragon horde and lots of moving shadows. They were in an area of the Underdark where the plane of shadow was VERY close. They windwalked past the whole thing. After the fact, OOC I was telling them how nasty that fight could have been.</p><p></p><p>Jump to next session. PCs meet up with an NPC that says something to the effect of, "You are late, I thought you were eaten by the dragon." So now IC they know of a dragon. After a big nasty fight that session a few of the players are advocating going back after the shadow dragon. They are talking about buffing up with level draining protection spells. I know that they will use Wall of Force to block of any reinforcements for the dragon (they always do). So they want to load up on true strikes, wall of force, anti level draining spells etc, and go 'take out' the dragon.</p><p></p><p>I'm livid, and I'm not sure why, other than I feel the trust of telling them about an encounter after the fact has been broken. So do I:</p><p></p><p>a) Leave the encounter as is, let them have their little cakewalk (it will still be dangerous but not overly so with those protections) and award them full xp.</p><p>b) Modify the encounter to include new things that would not have been detected by their original scouting.</p><p>c) Some other option that I am not seeing.</p><p></p><p>The campaign has many ties to the Shadovar, so I am thinking about having the Shadow Dragon have some sort of way to notify the Shadovar elite that the party is there (one of whom is wanted by the Shadovar) and turn the fight upside by having the Shadovar send a strike team in (or just a single high level BBEG).</p><p></p><p>Thoughts?</p><p></p><p>P.S. does anyone have that link to the thread that had PC starting gold amounts and other non SRD tables? I can't find it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wraithdrit, post: 1327671, member: 10820"] In a thread in the rules forum someone said: Which got me to thinking. You see, right now I am a little ticked off at my players. Two sessions ago they managed to sneak past a fairly dangerous encounter. They used Arcane Eye, saw a dragon horde and lots of moving shadows. They were in an area of the Underdark where the plane of shadow was VERY close. They windwalked past the whole thing. After the fact, OOC I was telling them how nasty that fight could have been. Jump to next session. PCs meet up with an NPC that says something to the effect of, "You are late, I thought you were eaten by the dragon." So now IC they know of a dragon. After a big nasty fight that session a few of the players are advocating going back after the shadow dragon. They are talking about buffing up with level draining protection spells. I know that they will use Wall of Force to block of any reinforcements for the dragon (they always do). So they want to load up on true strikes, wall of force, anti level draining spells etc, and go 'take out' the dragon. I'm livid, and I'm not sure why, other than I feel the trust of telling them about an encounter after the fact has been broken. So do I: a) Leave the encounter as is, let them have their little cakewalk (it will still be dangerous but not overly so with those protections) and award them full xp. b) Modify the encounter to include new things that would not have been detected by their original scouting. c) Some other option that I am not seeing. The campaign has many ties to the Shadovar, so I am thinking about having the Shadow Dragon have some sort of way to notify the Shadovar elite that the party is there (one of whom is wanted by the Shadovar) and turn the fight upside by having the Shadovar send a strike team in (or just a single high level BBEG). Thoughts? P.S. does anyone have that link to the thread that had PC starting gold amounts and other non SRD tables? I can't find it. :( [/QUOTE]
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