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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Coldaan" data-source="post: 4318741" data-attributes="member: 67560">well what i did was i started the day a little different than the "usual" day in the lifes of adventurers. you know, usually they wake up at an inn, have breakfast & chat, then go shopping and finally find something to do... *yawn*so now i let them wake up noticing that the inn is in fact on fire and they have to hurry to find a way out (skill challenge). the only way that was not blocked by burning stuff was the way to the basement, where they were greeted by an ambush of doppelganger-assassins, and after that they entered the catacombs through a secret door, looking for a) the reason why someone wants them dead and b) a way out of course. in the catacombs there was a series of possible encounters i planned, and it would've been easily possible to avoid every single one of them (except for the final encounter of course). but what my players (who play evil and power-greedy characters) did was they were in fact looking for every possible encounter. you know, if there's a door with the symbol of the necromantic deity Vecna on it, and your party is far from "fully healed" and you still enter the room to face the zombie encounter and so on...yeah well, so the situation is very dangerous, but i guess i will use that somehow to the advantage of the "dramatic flavour" of the adventure. nothing is more satisfying than overcoming obstacles while being at the brink of dying. and that's also why i am still not favouring the idea of letting them rest, but instead i could just grant them not only action points for the encounters but maybe also additional healing surges for "cleansing" the tombs of the undead, right?</blockquote>

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