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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9637909" data-attributes="member: 29398">Thanks for that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The trick is to have a stable group of friends who aren't planning on moving away, and to stay in one place yourself.I remember that fight as well, but not nearly as fondly as you.  My players tried every obvious "what if" that the module doesn't answer:--- they tried attacking the tentacled thingy coming in through the portal in hopes of slowing its progress; it's given no write-up of any kind (the module just blithely assumes the PCs will ignore it) so I had to make up some stats on the fly--- one PC tried going through the portal to attack the tentacled thingy from behind (!); the words don't say anything about this but the picture shows the tentacles completely blocking the opening, so based on that I told him he was out of luck--- some of the PCs wanted to shut the gate down while others wanted to open it up and let the tentacled thingy in (either naively thinking they could kill it or hoping to gain a stupidly-powerful friend, I'm still not sure which to this day); the module gives no mechanism for controlling the gate either before or after the BBEG is killed, so I had to invent one on the flyThere was some other headache came up during that combat as well but - perhaps mercifully - I've forgotten the details now.</blockquote>

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