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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Garnfellow" data-source="post: 2345155" data-attributes="member: 1223">I think this is a vital point. Ropers are plenty smart enough to evaluate their prey. If something looks too tough, they will just wait and bide their time.I would imagine that inhabitants of the Underdark soon learn where the ropers live, and avoid those places like the plague. The intelligent races use their knowledge of roper caverns strategically, sometimes trying to drive enemies into such deadly places, or setting up permanent strongpoints that force intruders to choose between mounting a frontal assault on a fortified post . . . or daring a trip down a side passage that funnels everything directly into a roper cavern.The most wicked of intelligent races venerate the ropers as the first true servitors of the Elder Eye and consider their ancient caverns to be sacred spaces, regularly sending them sacrificial slaves, in part as a reward for serving as guardians, in part in the hope of keeping the ropers sated. This is futile, of course. Ropers know no gratitude, only ceaseless hunger. Occasionally, deluded and degenerate cultists will intentionally seek out a roper cavern, hoping to experience the wonders of the Eye firsthand. Should they return, these cultists are greatly revered by their fellows. But almost always, they never come back -- and are assumed to have been taken up by the Eye to a better world.</blockquote>