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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rune" data-source="post: 445988" data-attributes="member: 67">Re: Rune vs Griswold...I won?  Hmmm.  There's something fishy, here...Sorry about that, but Dagon inspired me a whole lot more than the dragon did. <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=":)" />Where do I send the check, by the way?Given more time, my scenario would have been longer.  There was no way it would have been shorter.  I took a gamble.Ah, and now to the defense!  I'm so used to throwing encounters at my players that most people would consider insanely overpowered, that I sometimes forget that many groups have differing philosophies on the importance of a good challenge.  I typically expect my players to outwit me in order to stay alive.  They usually do.But, on to my rationalization of the ELs.  First of all, the Githzerai monk/cleric is essentially nothing more than a level 10 monk with extra hit points.  At most, I'd give him CR11.  This pretty much means the EL is, what 14ish?  Considering that this is one of only two likely combats, that doesn't seem to bad to me, keeping in mind my philosophy presented in the previous paragraph.  Ah, well.  Yeah, that, unfortunately, is the part that got axed due to time-constraints.  I had hoped that I had given enough information on the motives of the gods (and Shadow Dagon) that this wouldn't be too hard to wing, but given more time, this would, of course, have to be detailed.Probably.  It seems like kind of a non-issue to me, though, as I figured that most level 10 parties wouldn't be able to all escape so easily.  If they all do, well that's the end of that adventure, sure.   But so what?  If my party bailed out like that, I'd keep them very paranoid that they could be summoned back at any time (an option I considered, by the way, but felt went counter to the motives of the gods).Anyway, enough about that.Griswold, I really liked where you were going with your entry and I'd love to see a more fleshed out version, if you ever decide to do so!Mmmm.  Mindflayers and fish.</blockquote>

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