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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Riggs" data-source="post: 1645287" data-attributes="member: 15467">shockingThose lizards were no fun to mess with once they got out in numbers.  The good news about going through this part the way we did was that we avoided the traps the spider-folk set (the globes Rel mentioned stuck in the webs we were sure were of no good intent, and we thought that spiders would never leave eggs or anything of value out on the fringe like that). We also avoided most of the spider population, whatever number that was.The bad news was that they ambushed us anyway, knowing how deadly the shockers were in numbers.  Had we successfully destroyed all the spider guys with the frontal assault proposed, we could have rested and then fought separate fights.  We were fully buffed up at that time, as SWS mentioned.I think it would have depended on variables we couldn't know, like how damaging the traps were and how many hit us, and how many spiders were even there to fight us if we took them all on.  To be honest, as the player of Marius, I think I pushed my argument harder than I normally would care to just because I felt (correctly or incorrectly) that Marius had had precious little chance to contribute his main role.  In a non-urban setting with most of the talking to date being Barbarians (where SWS was a hero and Cathal was a member) or a captive dragon-guy thing which was a bumbling community interrogation of sorts to begin with, but then diplomatic, or rockmen and animals whom only SWS could converse with, it was probably just me wanting to continue having fun with Marius' main skill after getting a little chance with it with the gatekeepers.  No whining or worries then or now, just me remembering- or trying to.At this time in the campaign, Marius hadn't become the go-to guy for diplomacy or all things gabby. The other players hadn't had a chance to even see he could do that either. Many of the speaking encounters to that time he couldn't do or help with because of stuff like exotic language requirements or class specifics like Druids can speak with animals, etc.  Also, since I was married to the idea that I must waste my time with stupid prestige classes like the R.E., many of my early points went to requirements instead of things that could be helping right then, like speaking Terran :\ As Rel described here though, I only thought that Marius' best skill was diplomacy and such. It turns out it was getting into-and out of-trouble, even if it took the entire combat or campaign.</blockquote>

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