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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stockdale" data-source="post: 1958873" data-attributes="member: 3367">Destan, I found teh thread here. I ran this serval times for the two parent kid groups I've got running. Keeping in mind that the oldest player is 16 and the youngest is , we play on a PG to G basis. This may skew my prespective some. Here's my thoughts.*** Spoilers Ahead ***I hooked the players in with the crow hook. I had them do spot checks to notice a crow following them fopr several days and then land and speak in parrot-type language "Master Hurt, Blah Blah." They bought it hook line and sinker and followed the crow. I played it so the crow lured the PCs into the snake, rather than have it be a happenstance encounter. I figured the Crow/imp would know its there and would "test" the PCs by leading them into the encounter. No sweat of an encounter for either 3 -3rd level or 5-3rd and 4th level characters. The crow perches nearby the whoel encounter, waiting, watching, learning. It then flies directly to and into the cave. It leads them ever deeping into the cave complex. In the first major room, I always had at least one goblin (for the 3rd level party) or Hobgolbin (for the 4th level party) run off to sound the alarm at the first possible moment. Depnding upon how quickly the party dispatched the first four goblins depended on where the  next enounter happened. With the third level party, the battle occured in the guard room back through the hallway and into the common area, and a well placed hold person onm the BBEG goblin ended the battle rather quickly. With the fourth level party, it all happened in the guard area, but the BBEG golbin pulled back to just before the skeleton room and fought it out there. Good use of her scroll is important with her last stand. The skeletal dragon is a fun enounter. It starts with a bang, but can end quickly if the party has a cleric with a high charisma. However, in the event that it will take longer than three rounds to turn the thing, this encounter can easily turn into a TPK. In both cases, I had at least one character fall when they tried to take the thing on directly. (In an interesting twist, the youngest character tried to appeal to the dragon's vanity. A fun little attempt at parley, which ended poorly.)In both cases, the bird reverted to imp form while the battle with the skeletal dragon was fought and escaped using invisibility when that battle appeared lost. During the interm, he cast spells. I'll use that little fella again before long. Lastly, the senario was sort of anticlimatic insofar as after fighting the skeletal dragon, they searched the room and well it was over. I'll have to solve that situation next time. I'll probably have them search the side rooms first and then fight their way out of that room. This was an A+ adventure. By far one of the best Dungeon adventures I've run.Stockdale</blockquote>

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