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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thedungeondelver" data-source="post: 4839836" data-attributes="member: 34865">You seem to have come to grips with the problem admirably; I think there's a juncture at which a near total party kill must be dealt with in an "efficient" manner.  Certainly lining a number of 1st level characters up behind the survivor(s) where they can only hope not to be wiped out again is one way of doing it, but, as you point out, just prior to facing off against Iuz, Zuggmetoy, or any of the other powerful creatures in the Temple with one or two strong and a bevy of weak characters becomes wholly untenable.In a long-term campaign, clearly, the survivors should take the new cohorts under their wings and find safer environs to delve!  A trip downriver to N1 or the like would be in order (with of course the wise DM appropriately restocking the Temple dungeons, perhaps the surviving members meting out some vengeance against the innocent folk of Hommlet in the meantime); but again, I think you're going about it correctly.Or, to turn an internet phrase...YOU'RE DOING IT RIGHT.</blockquote>