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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rils" data-source="post: 6907721" data-attributes="member: 78768">There's several other threads around here somewhere about ways to run DH, which have a lot of great ideas in them.  Might be worth doing a quick search, you'll get a lot of inspiration from them (I know I did!).Re: resting, per the module they can take a long rest right before going down to the basement.  Truthfully, there's no reason to take one before that, and really no reason they can't retreat to the house for another one at any time once they hit the basement.  It's largely up to you, as the DM, whether you want to allow it.  Repeated rests will completely destroy the climax of the adventure.  My suggestion is that once they descend to the basement, maybe the stairs going back up seal themselves off, or maybe the house itself creaks and groans or makes visual/audible manifestations that don't allow them to get a full long rest, something like that.  However you manage it, I'd say only allow them the one long rest, with short rests as time allows.My players actually skipped 75% of the basement.  For some reason they managed to find their way straight to the basement by the most direct path (dining room).  I ran the fight with the ghouls like an ambush - As written, one player can tank the crossroads while everyone else hammers them from range.  I flipped it around, and waited till the players were all at the 4-way, then had the ghouls creep up behind them from all directions.  It turned into a hit and run battle, with characters running down corridors alone, falling in the pit trap, etc.  The ghoul guerilla tactics were great fun and kept the players on the edge of their seats.  BUT, other than that, they hit the climax at probably 80% resources.  And two of them still died, with the other two running for the lives on single hit points.  Good times.</blockquote>

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