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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ab0b0" data-source="post: 1711249" data-attributes="member: 22291">Good replies, keep em' coming.Thanks for all the help, everyone! Your suggestions, so far, are quite good. As far as the harpy's charm ability, I was using stats from a published 3.0 adventure. That's what I get for not doing my homework. I've since edited the original post. Point taken about the experienced players headline, it could cause less folks to view it, so I've also edited the original title. My intention when I wrote it, however, was to attract as many people as possible who have actual play experience with this situation. I was not trying to discriminate, I just wanted to alert people that my questions were fairly involved and because of this I was really hoping that some more experienced folk (seemingly all of the people who've replied so far) would take note and help with my situation. Now for a few more things: When the PCs were heading toward the harpy's nest, I had them make listen checks to hear it's singing. It was DC15 to hear it before the harpy came into view. Ironically, it penalized characters who had better listen modifiers, but I felt it was appropriate. The characters who didn't hear the singing wanted to plug their ears when the other PCs commented on the sound, but they didn't have anything suitable. All they had was dirt, so instead they wanted to use a piece of cloth that they could tear from their clothes! I was thinking of giving them a bonus on their will saves. Finally I decided, that if they could hear the harpy at all, then they should be affected by it. So, I told them that their idea was pretty silly(there was no way that cloth earplugs made in 2 seconds were going to be of any help), and that plugging their ears wouldn't matter because the harpy was using a spell-like ability. Unless they were completely deafened, they would be affected. Anyway, please, as the title says, keep the responses to my first post coming. The more clarification I can get on my initial questions the better. Thanks everyone,Bill</blockquote>

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