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<blockquote data-quote="ares71" data-source="post: 1862563" data-attributes="member: 21826">When I ran it, my PC's were initially having an easy time.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Barbarian and Monk got &quot;bored&quot; while the rest of the party was going to rest and recover spells.&nbsp; They went exploring my themselves and ran into the roper.&nbsp; &nbsp; (heh, heh).&nbsp;&nbsp; I decided to be generous and let him parley with them.&nbsp;&nbsp; He offered to not eat them immediately, if one of them would leave and bring back more food (preferabbly elves) and he would keep the other one hostage.&nbsp; &nbsp; They decided they wanted no part of that.&nbsp;&nbsp; They tried to make a break for it, and failed badly.&nbsp;&nbsp; Roper got both of them.&nbsp; &nbsp; I made the players roll to see who he would eat first.&nbsp; &nbsp; The monk lost and was devoured.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; The Barbarian managed to break free and jumped in the river to escape.&nbsp;&nbsp; Almost drowned, but kept rolling fantastic Swim rolls.&nbsp;&nbsp; He lived, but barely.&nbsp;&nbsp; Lost all his equipment too, either dropped by the Roper, or lost in the river.&nbsp; &nbsp; Needless to say the group never split the party again. When the were a little tougher, they came back to get some &quot;payback&quot; on the roper.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; They spent a huge amount of gold to have an NPC mage make a maximized fireball scroll for them, which the party mage used to full effect.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ares71, post: 1862563, member: 21826"] When I ran it, my PC's were initially having an easy time. The Barbarian and Monk got "bored" while the rest of the party was going to rest and recover spells. They went exploring my themselves and ran into the roper. (heh, heh). I decided to be generous and let him parley with them. He offered to not eat them immediately, if one of them would leave and bring back more food (preferabbly elves) and he would keep the other one hostage. They decided they wanted no part of that. They tried to make a break for it, and failed badly. Roper got both of them. I made the players roll to see who he would eat first. The monk lost and was devoured. The Barbarian managed to break free and jumped in the river to escape. Almost drowned, but kept rolling fantastic Swim rolls. He lived, but barely. Lost all his equipment too, either dropped by the Roper, or lost in the river. Needless to say the group never split the party again. When the were a little tougher, they came back to get some "payback" on the roper. They spent a huge amount of gold to have an NPC mage make a maximized fireball scroll for them, which the party mage used to full effect. [/QUOTE]

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