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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 3023118" data-attributes="member: 5868">I was a player in the first two sessions, and I think the DM has been tough but fair.  We were way over our head in the first session -- should have ran, and made a couple of tactical mistakes that cost us big, though we came close to winning our fight.  A black dragon flying in and melting the sentry on the top of the Keep is a good indicator that you're in too deep -- but at that point it was too late to run.  Session 2 was an outgrowth of session 1 -- we just couldn't get away from the army of lizardmen.If I were to fault the DM at all, it would be to watch the ELs and adventure sequence a little closer.  I believe we started with "Encounter at Blackwall Keep", which is a later adventure in the series.  I'm not certain he intended the party to stay and fight at Blackwall -- I think we were supposed to run, which would have taken us to the first adventure (I think the shaft we encountered at the end of Session 2 was the entrance to the Whispering Cairn, though I'm not certain).  But you can't always count on the PCs following that plan -- sometimes they just decide to be heroic!Personally, I had fun with both sessions, though I'd expect frustration to set in after the third near-TPK.</blockquote>