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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 15882" data-attributes="member: 151">If played withe baddies acting intelligently, it can be a slaughterhouse.I've already ranted considerably about HoNS in our story hour, among other places, so I won't reiterate all that here.  But to echo what you've heard above: they are not ready.  Will they suffer serious casualties as written?  Almost certainly.  Can the module be modified to be more playable for your group?  Without question.In the case of my group, we didn't have the benefit of that kind of fore-knowledge going in.  I did modify the module somewhat, but seeing as how we had six players, including a Shadowed of Pelor (a Hunter of the Dead variant), I didn't think the module would need that much modification.  It probably could have used some.Never mind the fact that if I wanted to spend THAT much time modifiying a module, I might as well stick with a homebrew...because the chief advantage of a purchased module is the time it saves me.  I mistakenly assumed that since this was a core WOTC module, it wouldn't require that kind of modification.  I was wrong.  Ask this question: how many members of that party can withstand a DC25 FORT save Assasain's killing attack?  HOW OFTEN?  If the answer is, not often enough, then get out of Dodge. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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