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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6652814" data-attributes="member: 6787650">RE: purple worm hunting:1.) No, I don't assume it is easy to purchase Purple Worm poison. Hence why we are talking about alternate methods for acquiring it. It might be easy to buy some, but it might not. No assumptions there, just contingency planning.2.) No, I don't assume that it's easy to find them. Again I've made that point that it might be easy to do. It is in my current campaign because the PCs have travelled a lot with their spelljamming ship and found a place where enormous burrowing things come up and eat the cows the PCs had released as a stalking horse to see if the area was safe.3.) No, I don't assume it's easy to kill them. I happen to think that it is easy to kill them, but reread my post and you'll see that the argument I'm making is just that it is easier to kill a purple worm than a beholder, or especially than two dozen beholders on a tyrant ship. Context is key. &quot;Easier&quot; and &quot;easy&quot; are not synonyms.Name any group that can take on the beholders and I'll show you how they'd be better off killing some purple worms first.P.S. If you're Purple Worm hunting you're going to do it on rock, not soil. It slows them down and ensures that you can follow them. Collapsing soil tunnels is therefore irrelevant to deliberate hunting of Purple Worms--it only comes into play when they're hunting you. One assumption I do make when I say &quot;go kill some purple worms&quot; is that you know how to do it correctly, stacking the odds in your favor. From what you say I may be assuming too much, but the problem is easily rectified: consult a sage or cast Commune or Contact Outer Plane, and the DM-in-the-persona-of-NPCs will give you some monster-hunting tips. (Or, in real life, come to Enworld and ask the other posters.) IMO it's more fun to figure these things out yourself though.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6652814, member: 6787650"] RE: purple worm hunting: 1.) No, I don't assume it is easy to purchase Purple Worm poison. Hence why we are talking about alternate methods for acquiring it. It [I]might[/I] be easy to buy some, but it might not. No assumptions there, just contingency planning. 2.) No, I don't assume that it's easy to find them. Again I've made that point that it [I]might[/I] be easy to do. It is in my current campaign because the PCs have travelled a lot with their spelljamming ship and found a place where enormous burrowing things come up and eat the cows the PCs had released as a stalking horse to see if the area was safe. 3.) No, I don't assume it's easy to kill them. I happen to think that it is easy to kill them, but reread my post and you'll see that the argument I'm making is just that it is [I]easier[/I] to kill a purple worm than a beholder, or especially than two dozen beholders on a tyrant ship. Context is key. "Easier" and "easy" are not synonyms. Name any group that can take on the beholders and I'll show you how they'd be better off killing some purple worms first. P.S. If you're Purple Worm hunting you're going to do it on rock, not soil. It slows them down and ensures that you can follow them. Collapsing soil tunnels is therefore irrelevant to deliberate hunting of Purple Worms--it only comes into play when they're hunting [I]you[/I]. One assumption I do make when I say "go kill some purple worms" is that you know how to do it correctly, stacking the odds in your favor. From what you say I may be assuming too much, but the problem is easily rectified: consult a sage or cast Commune or Contact Outer Plane, and the DM-in-the-persona-of-NPCs will give you some monster-hunting tips. (Or, in real life, come to Enworld and ask the other posters.) IMO it's more fun to figure these things out yourself though. [/QUOTE]

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