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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GSHamster" data-source="post: 6651067" data-attributes="member: 20187">Your players need to be the ones who free themselves, who come up with the plan. So long as the plan isn't absolutely crazy, run with it, and let it work (with appropriate twists.)However, you do need to "create space" for their plan to work. What I would suggest is that the duergar leave their most junior or lowest status member as the sole guard, while the rest of them go elsewhere. After all, if the PCs are tied and gagged, there's not much they can do, is there?This guard can be lazy, falling asleep (snoring loudly) soon after. Or maybe he could be cruel, and decide to use one PC as target practice for dagger throwing, ignoring all the other prisoners. He doesn't actually hit the PC, just delights in him flinch.A dangerous move would be to make the guard lustful, and have him spend his time pawing female PCs. I would avoid this, as there's a high chance it will backfire on you and damage your group.Perhaps the cruelest thing you could to the PCs would be to make the guard kind and dumb. The type of person who would un-gag the prisoners and give them water.But whatever you do, whatever personality you give him, the guard should be a bad guard and probably not too bright. That gives the PCs the "space" needed to execute an escape.</blockquote>