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<blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 6887265" data-attributes="member: 54629">So that Evard's black tentacles proved to be the undoing of my party. The PCs rejected Talis' deal, so she shouted for her guardians, and along came the helmed horror ... and since Talis' hall isn't very big, the tentacles filled almost the entire space (she'd already escaped out a window at this point). Two PCs died from the tentacles. A third would have as well if the fourth, a moon druid, hadn't managed to escape out of the room, which resulted in me having the horror chase after him and stop concentrating on the spell in the process. I suppose you could also argue that the fourth PC would've died as well if he hadn't been a moon druid with virtually limitless hit points.Anyway, so he eventually circled back around and rescued the still living PC, and at the end of the session, I suggested he could look for some druids in the mountains to see about getting the two dead PCs reincarnated. That'd undoubtedly take a bit of time, and Rezmir is already several days ahead of them, so I'm struggling to think of a reason why I shouldn't have the castle be long gone if/when the PCs ever end up going to Parnast. Yes, I know I'm the DM, and the adventure even says it's up to me to decide when the castle leaves, so I could just have it hang around because reasons ... but seriously, by the time they get to Parnast, it'll have been about a tenday since Rezmir left Naerytar for Skyreach.Should I just skip chapter 8 and go right into The Rise of Tiamat? If yes, should I have the PCs start at level 7 or bump them up to level 8? (They technically defeated Talis by forcing her to flee, so I'm going to let them get to 7th at the very least.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pukunui, post: 6887265, member: 54629"] So that [I]Evard's black tentacles[/I] proved to be the undoing of my party. The PCs rejected Talis' deal, so she shouted for her guardians, and along came the helmed horror ... and since Talis' hall isn't very big, the tentacles filled almost the entire space (she'd already escaped out a window at this point). Two PCs died from the tentacles. A third would have as well if the fourth, a moon druid, hadn't managed to escape out of the room, which resulted in me having the horror chase after him and stop concentrating on the spell in the process. I suppose you could also argue that the fourth PC would've died as well if he hadn't been a moon druid with virtually limitless hit points. Anyway, so he eventually circled back around and rescued the still living PC, and at the end of the session, I suggested he could look for some druids in the mountains to see about getting the two dead PCs reincarnated. That'd undoubtedly take a bit of time, and Rezmir is already several days ahead of them, so I'm struggling to think of a reason why I shouldn't have the castle be long gone if/when the PCs ever end up going to Parnast. Yes, I know I'm the DM, and the adventure even says it's up to me to decide when the castle leaves, so I could just have it hang around because reasons ... but seriously, by the time they get to Parnast, it'll have been about a tenday since Rezmir left Naerytar for Skyreach. Should I just skip chapter 8 and go right into [I]The Rise of Tiamat[/I]? If yes, should I have the PCs start at level 7 or bump them up to level 8? (They technically defeated Talis by forcing her to flee, so I'm going to let them get to 7th at the very least.) [/QUOTE]

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