[RttToEE] Almost a TPK tonight...

[Numion]

Re: cdg and Speak with Dead

But effectively is not CDG in most cases. They are winning, they don't need to. The battle is close, taking time to do so is dangerous. The battle is lost, time to run away, or maybe demand surrender or they will do a CDG [a tactic that should not produce surrender, but might allow less than a complete loss.] A CDG is good tactics only in special cases, the victim is the lost prince whose death ends the revolt, the victim is the only one who knows... Whatever. But attacking adventurers are just attacking adventurers, whose dead are somehow replaced with something of about the same threat due to some mystic law of magic or something. Not worth bothering to kill.

CDG was viable tactic, because there were still 2 adventurers running free when they decided to use it. What if the wizard had dispelled the hold and paralysis of the other PCs? Or the paladin had healed the one in the negatives? This would've turned the tables quite easily, and I see nothing wrong with the guards playing it safe.

It's much harder to dispel death, after all

 

[Numion]

Re: cdg and Speak with Dead

"The cultists even had a few clerics, so if they absolutely, positively wanted to interrogate them, they could just speak with dead."

Check the spell. The dead don't answer at all clearly, and not at all to enemies if they can help it. Much better to interrogate live people. [PCs refusing to talk can be corrected by any of a number of spells, or just by mundane torture.]

The chances are that you'll get clearer answers from dead adventurers, rather than live ones

 

[KnowTheToe]

I have died twice in this mod and don't really mind. First off, I know this is a meat grinder and so I don't get overly attached to my characters and second this is really my first run with 3E so I get to learn a lot of the mechanics of the game and different character classes.

 

[incognito]

I had a TPK in Monte's RttToEE.

It was going o be a capture, if even one of them got away, but the last mobile guy refused to leave his comrades. (weird behavior in a wandering Cleric/Rogue of Farlanghan.

So, once ALL of the party emebers were down, they looted them, and cooked and ate the bodies. Gnoll's - they're angry and hungry.

 

[Roland Delacroix]

My PC's: Would you.............like my input on the matter?