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Message: <blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 6851700" data-attributes="member: 97077">I love the Portmantoes! I have a feeling Sir Castalot likes big spells and he cannot lie.Group checks make sense if the whole group is engaged in the interaction and they are conceivably helping each other rather than hindering. Briefing players who aren't used to engaging in these types of challenges is also a good idea in my experience.The NPC hirelings can be useful inside the cave or ruins. In one part of the caves, for example, there is a wrecked apparatus of kwalish with a skeletal occupant within and some treasure in the glove box. However, it is in a particularly unstable cavern that risks harming PCs and burying the loot. So you can go back to camp and get Wes to shore it up for you, trading time and a couple gold to eliminate risk. If you chose to explore the caves without Fidget, this effort also takes time. So by using NPC hireling, you can reduce risk or save on your time resource which makes later parts of the delve easier. (If you get to the Orrery with no time resource remaining, for example, it's really hard.)</blockquote>