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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Peni Griffin" data-source="post: 3565631" data-attributes="member: 50322">Glad to be of service.  Ghost Sound would indeed be sufficient for sounds of tramping feet, etc.; however, I was thinking of the distracting possibilities of Koth saying something like:  "Sgt., activate Defense Plan Delta while I prepare that spell," followed by ghost sounds overlaid with the hobgoblin shouting orders like:  "Move it, maggots!  If they find and activate the Seige Barricade in there, we're in a world of hurt!  Everybody got their ghost gear in place?  Bring him down!"  And so on.  Cleverly improvised orders can lead to the PCs wasting precious rounds searching for the imaginary Seige Barricade to activate it, making irrelevant buffs vs. magic and negative energy, etc.Just last night, a mindbender created an illusion of a Too Mucking Big red dragon, which covered his escape with the four goblin survivors on a wyvern.  Not only did the party ignore their erstwhile foes in a frenzy to acquire cover and buff vs. fire, they sent away their vulnerable pegasi, specifically telling them to scatter.  After they realized they'd been fooled, they still had to wait for the pegasi to start returning, which - since they'd scattered -  they did not do as a unit or all at once.  In the end only three people were able to pursue the wyvern, which meant that the escapees actually had a chance.  Had the goblins managed to shoot down a pegasus, the pegasi had failed their saves vs. the fear wand, the cleric failed his save vs. the wyvern's sting, or the dominated paladin not misjudged the movements of the person he was instructed to attack (that was cool - they couldn't communicate in the air, and Sir Tib's player missed Morlin's player saying that he had instructed his pegasus to maintain a distance of 120' instead of catching up, so Sir Tib made a good-faith attempt to attack where the player expected Morlin to be, and it was an honest surprise when the attack didn't come off), the battle might not have been a bad-guy TPK.  In the event, it was, but thanks to the effects of the imaginary dragon, it wasn't the normal sure thing.  Anyway, there's thematic resonance to the party acting on misinformation, since the point of the Vraath Keep episode is to acquire accurate intelligence about what is going on.</blockquote>

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