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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 3029560" data-attributes="member: 22424">Yes. If something is that deadly to the PCs, I expect there to be some sort of warning. Hell, if the existence of rumours bothers you that much, put some dead and mutilated bodies outside the dungeon or something.But as the scenario exists, the players have to decide whether to take the adventure or not based purely on a guess. Good play simply cannot save them. So, no, it's not fair.(And, by the way, a significant part of my 'due diligence' before the adventure means checking at the nearest village to said dungeon. If the dungeon is truly deadly, I expect there to have been other adventurers tried to loot it and not returned, and I expect finding that information to be easy to find - the arrival of adventurers in a village is big news unless it happens all the time. If it's big news, the locals will remember it. If it happens all the time, the locals will remember the general outcome. Either way, I expect a DC 10 Gather Information check to turn up the information, and would consider ANYTHING else unfair.)No. But I'm not an adventurer by trade. If I were, I might well consider it a reasonable risk to take. A lack of information is not in and of itself a warning.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 3029560, member: 22424"] Yes. If something is that deadly to the PCs, I expect there to be some sort of warning. Hell, if the existence of rumours bothers you that much, put some dead and mutilated bodies outside the dungeon or something. But as the scenario exists, the players have to decide whether to take the adventure or not based purely on a guess. Good play simply cannot save them. So, no, it's not fair. (And, by the way, a significant part of my 'due diligence' before the adventure means checking at the nearest village to said dungeon. If the dungeon is truly deadly, I expect there to have been other adventurers tried to loot it and not returned, and I expect finding that information to be easy to find - the arrival of adventurers in a village is big news unless it happens all the time. If it's big news, the locals will remember it. If it happens all the time, the locals will remember the general outcome. Either way, I expect a DC 10 Gather Information check to turn up the information, and would consider ANYTHING else unfair.) No. But I'm not an adventurer by trade. If I were, I might well consider it a reasonable risk to take. A lack of information is not [B]in and of itself[/B] a warning. [/QUOTE]

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