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Message: <blockquote data-quote="al_fredo" data-source="post: 6339189" data-attributes="member: 81597">Session last night (Museum Fight).I have Delft give them Pistols. Only two of them can really use it - since the Cleric and Wizard don't have the skills. I upgraded the pistol to: No brutal, but 1d6+2 extra dice, and high crit x2. The rogue will use it, the fighter has a +7 to hit, when his normal is +10...so even with the extra damage, I don't know if I'll ever see them pulled out. For the magic users - this is like just a badge or something. Prior, the PCs talk to Rock Rackus. I do my best Kayne impersonation. They basically think this guy is a d-bag and full of crap. A player says "Why are we talking to this loser?!". The Vekeshi is still not in the party, so they don't really know what to do with him. He offers them a chance for crazy loot, but the party isn't interested. Plus, they are playing by the book since they got reamed out by Saxby. Anyways...I figure his trial will be soon, and he will be acquitted, either because of the jury...or because he actually had the kill shot on the Worm Maw at the Arms fair. So, off to the museum. The PCs take preps. Decide to lock all doors, except the front. Cast two rituals, Eye of alarm, and magic Circle around the artifacts. So Xambria attacks...and the PCs are honestly like "Whaaa? Didn't she die in the fire on the Dagger?" Totally blind sided! Then the Gidim attack...and we have combat.DMs: Honestly, mostly due to excellent tactics by the PCs, the scene was easy - even with 3 PCs, and I didn't adjust anything.  Xambria got bloodied very quickly, and had to fudge it for a round or two, just so there was some tension. All of the PCs got within the magic circle, which was preventing any aberrant creature from entering or attacking lower than 10th level...but they could attack through it. I ruled the the monsters didn't know any better, and were attracted to the PCs more than the fleeing bystanders and just hung around the circle...getting picked off. Perhaps, I handled this badly...or should have been more aggressive with bystanders...but their good ritual worked brilliantly - I didn't want to penalized for good thinking. I ended the encounter early, saying you could just pick these guys off. Advice: Round 1, pull out all stops. Action point, encounter, etc. Leave nothing back, you may not get to use any of it! Perhaps I should have had the monsters beeline for the civilians, and then the PCs would watch them suffer from the protection of their circle, but - I think I got a bit lazy here. It was really hot in their living room, and I was sweating!1 <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Sure, some civilians got distant madness, but that was going to happen anyway. That's fine, they burned a daily or two...and they take care of Xambria, and bring her back to RHC as planned.She goes into her speech, and we stopped there and will continue in August. Our group again was totally surprised! Saxby and Macbannin...oh crap! Wait, Xambria just duped us!  I have to change her speech a bit. DMs: I don't like that the kill squad comes in the basement. They know about iron rings...I feel it's a bit cheap to have assassins keep teleporting into the RHC. But maybe they just Passwalled from the rail tunnel. Excited for the final scene - hopefully we'll get our wizard back. Not sure about the Saxby encounter...do her bodyguards attack the PCs...otherwise, would they just let her leave?Might have to post this somewhere else, but: Do you think Xambria's Boon is TOO good for just one character to have? How have other DMs balanced this, or made other PCs not feel undervalued/powered?</blockquote>

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