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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 2201851" data-attributes="member: 463">Hi Scorch - sounds tres cool!  <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=":)" />Spoilers for Lost City of Barakus:[spoiler] IMC  2 PCs were investigating the temple, both followers of the God of Magic (1 of them was asked to check it out by Stylus Kant, the head of the College of Magic) - unfortunately on their second attendance the Death-God cultists decided to take them out, and they were quickly overwhelmed & shackled in the punishment cell.  The other 4 PCs launched an assault to rescue them - only 4 2nd & 3rd level PCs vs the EL 8 cultists, but fortunately they had just recruited Moorrin, who proved that a Sorcerer with 'Sleep' is an awesome force indeed.  <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=":)" />  Plus the party Wizard has Sleep too and a high save DC, though the enemy Clerics proved not very susceptible.  It was still a very hard-fought battle, and what with all the RPing and investigation they'd done that session (not to mention me giving the War-1 guards 9 hp each instead of 5) I didn't have the heart to halve their XP.[/spoiler] Well I like to keep an eye on EL, though CR is usually more important - monster with CR over party level is very likely to kill them whereas a high EL comprised of several weaker creatures usually won't.  I may need to implement the half-XP rule more strictly, generally I'd like about 1 level-up per 4 sessions (that's 2 months of play), and so far it's nearly twice that.  3 levels in 19 sessions would probably be a bit slow for my game, as that would be around 3 months' play per level.</blockquote>

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