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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 4928371" data-attributes="member: 386">Just finished playing.  A quick recap here.We only had 3 players, so 3 third-level PCs ventured into the Cairngorms - a level 6 area.  Dangerous, but smart play would triumph and lead to generous rewards.  Exactly the kind of play I am looking for in this game.The PCs went in, encounter some wandering monsters:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A clutch of griffons, a mating pair and two nearly grown, flying around.  They ignored the party due to their lack of horses.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The survivors of the Guttersnipe Goblin Tribe, 4 goblins and 4 hobgoblins.  The PCs laid an ambush; at a tense moment in the fight, where one hobgoblin had readied an action to coup de grace a PC, the goblins tried to parley.  The PCs killed them, but only barely.  My DM notes said that they would not fight, but would attempt to gain allies.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Camping out on the side of a mountain using a ritual to summon nature spirits to hide them, dire wolves approached, following their scent, but lost it and moved on.</li> </ul>The PCs spotted an old PC - Malchior, now a battle wight - leading a group of zombies to his old family tomb in the Cairngorms.  The PCs laid an ambush; three of the zombies turned out to be ghouls and the fight was very close.  Once again the PCs triumphed.Cool features:A quick flowing mountain stream that knocked you prone and dragged you downstream.  (+9 vs. Fort, prone and slide 1d6 squares.)Players strategizing and planning out when to engage, using rituals to hide themselves.Setting up an amush and creating a trap on the fly using the damage guidelines on page 42.  (A rockslide; level 5; +8 vs Ref in a specific area; 3d10+4 damage, miss half, area turns to difficult terrain; DC 21 Endurance and Atheletics checks to create the trap, failure on either one indicates the loss of a Healing Surge.)The utter kick-assitude of the Druid Daily 5 power, Wall of Thorns (or whatever it's called).Using the PC's Intimidate checks as monster morale checks (Free Actions).Giving the elven Ranger a +2 to saves against ghoul paralysis.Sharok the dwarven druid making a diving leap off a 15-foot cliff, driving a Corruption Corpse into the wall (attack vs. Reflex, push 2 and prone, Sharok takes 1d10 falling damage and falls prone).I'm sure there were a few others; I was in an ad-libbing mood tonight.edit: One other cool thing.  When the hobgoblin was readying an action to coup de grace Umar, I described him holding Umar's head in his hand.  That meant he didn't have his shield ready.  When Sharok attacked, the 2 points of AC from being without his shield was the difference.</blockquote>

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