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<blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 5832519" data-attributes="member: 13703">Yeah, I'm really looking forward to it.We just ran through the Shackled City AP.&nbsp; It was supposed to be a meat grinder, and I told the players this up front.&nbsp; We used point buy (30 points) for character generation.&nbsp; I fully expected there to be numerous deaths.&nbsp; However, in the whole campaign (1st level to 18/19th level PC's) there were only 5 or 6 deaths, and half of those were simply a result of really bad decision making on the players' part, not overpowered encounters.We also had 50-odd occasions where a PC was taken into the negatives in the campaign (we kept track of it! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />), so some of the encounters were quite challenging.&nbsp; But, having said all that, there were a heap of encounters that the PC's simply cake-walked, including several that had resulted in multiple PC deaths in other campaigns.&nbsp; We had 5 PC's and an NPC in the group, so that definitely helped.I have been told that the AoW is even more challenging than Shackled City and that the first 2 adventures are quite deadly.&nbsp; However, I am planning on running Mad God's Key as the opening adventure to the campaign (with the Whispering Cairn, Three Faces of Evil,etc following after that), which should definitely help my players as they will probably be a level higher than expected.&nbsp; I may even have to bump some encounters up in difficulty as a result!I'm not running Mad God's Key because I was worried about them getting killed without a lead-in adventure to get some experience under their belts.&nbsp; I'm running it because I it reads like a really fun adventure and it seems to fit into the AoW campaign with almost no modifications needed.In any case, I think the PC's should be fine without me giving them super-high stats.&nbsp; I could be wrong though! <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil&nbsp; &nbsp; :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" />Olaf the Stout</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Olaf the Stout, post: 5832519, member: 13703"] Yeah, I'm really looking forward to it. We just ran through the Shackled City AP. It was supposed to be a meat grinder, and I told the players this up front. We used point buy (30 points) for character generation. I fully expected there to be numerous deaths. However, in the whole campaign (1st level to 18/19th level PC's) there were only 5 or 6 deaths, and half of those were simply a result of really bad decision making on the players' part, not overpowered encounters. We also had 50-odd occasions where a PC was taken into the negatives in the campaign (we kept track of it! :D), so some of the encounters were quite challenging. But, having said all that, there were a heap of encounters that the PC's simply cake-walked, including several that had resulted in multiple PC deaths in other campaigns. We had 5 PC's and an NPC in the group, so that definitely helped. I have been told that the AoW is even more challenging than Shackled City and that the first 2 adventures are quite deadly. However, I am planning on running Mad God's Key as the opening adventure to the campaign (with the Whispering Cairn, Three Faces of Evil,etc following after that), which should definitely help my players as they will probably be a level higher than expected. I may even have to bump some encounters up in difficulty as a result! I'm not running Mad God's Key because I was worried about them getting killed without a lead-in adventure to get some experience under their belts. I'm running it because I it reads like a really fun adventure and it seems to fit into the AoW campaign with almost no modifications needed. In any case, I think the PC's should be fine without me giving them super-high stats. I could be wrong though! :devil: Olaf the Stout [/QUOTE]

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