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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdweller00" data-source="post: 7148813" data-attributes="member: 6778479">Mitigated by the inability to rest safely.  When coupled with the fact that the PCs might not even realize that it's not safe to rest - as in, not try to conserve their resources, this is actually kinda nasty.Heavens forfend the poor widdle PCs should be put under pressure.Not every encounter needs to be serious challenge.  Part of the fun of an adventure like this is just exploring and prodding things to see what happens.The real question you should be asking yourself is "why are the PCs pushing on the block in the first place?"  Of course, a little application of critical thought should yield ways to push it without taking damage.  The axe is powerful but almost impossible to find and comes with a hidden caveat.  I like it, myself.No.  This one's pretty simple - there are various spells and effects which can remove the "poisoned" condition without neutralizing the poison.  Lesser Restoration for example.  Then there are effects that can neutralize poisons - like Protection from Poison, or the Paladin's Lay on Hands ability.  Oh the horrors, an adversity the PCs might not be able to cure immediately.My reading is that that IS the curse....except that whether PCs can climb random walls without an Athletics check is entirely up to the DM.  I don't know many people IRL who can climb bare masonry without specialized training, equipment, and/or exercise regimes, myself.No, it's a normal swarm of rats with the disease ability possessed by the diseased giant rat variant.  Since the disease prevents nonmagical healing from even short rests, this is actually a potential threat.  (Once in a blue moon if the swarm hits and the PC fails a lowly DC:10 con save; and if the PCs don't realize they've been diseased and don't have a ready cure).Wights are pretty disappointing in 5e.  They work...almost sorta well if they try hit and run tactics to drain a bit of max hp before fleeing, resting, ambushing, and running away again.And then one or more PCs don't realize that they've been infected and perish horribly.  There are and have actually been a fair number of primitive cultures that made use of crossbows.  We're not talking crossbows with complex mechanical gears like in post-medieval Europe, but still effective....trap maintenance is a common dungeon problem.  Next you'll be wanting to know why the sleeping martial artists didn't perish long ago from bed sores, or how the zombies can break the laws of thermodynamics.  Although this particular sort of place might have some sort of guardian spirit that keeps things in order to some degree.</blockquote>

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