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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pale Master" data-source="post: 4007476" data-attributes="member: 53185">Piratecat - Yes, that' s something I would have overlooked. I am terrible at roleplaying encounters - but it's important for PCs to learn that you can earn XP by talking as well as fighting! I like the way Sunless Citadel handles this - the PCs can avoid a huge chunk of the combat encounters if they use a diplomatic approach.S'Mon - I will have to seriously consider this. I would have to drop in a conveniently placed treasure chest every now and again to keep them at wealth / level, because they will be using consumables at the same rate but gaining xp and gold at half rate - making them poorer overall without some kind of intervention.Kallisti - Wow - Consider that whole set-up yoinked! I love that you've managed to at least include an allusion to dragons. I never considered slaying wyrmlings too heroic, but having the PCs after a dragon horde is a great way to foreshadow bigger things to come. I don't see any necessity in having it monstrously huge though - KoTB has, by my count, 10 mini-dungeons (not counting the ogre cave, which is just one room, after all). So if you managed to pare down each one to four encounters (which is a good number for a single session of play), you would have the magic number 40, with the PCs ending up at 4th level.I'm leaning towards about 5 mini-dungeons, with about 4-6 encounter areas each, to put them at 3. I think maybe EGG considered it likely that PCs would flee from at least some encounters. Mine are more likely to stay and fight to the death.I find it interesting that, in Sunless Citadel, about a third of the encounters are EL < 1. One could bloat one's number of encounters without handing out a lot of experience this way - I only worry that this might get tedious. "Oh look, another small monstrous centipede. Step on it."All of you - Many thanks for your responses. Your ideas are more valuable to me than an abandoned silver mine.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> I'm going to make the first encounter with dire rats. "You can't call yourself a seasoned adventurer until you've spent some time killing rats!"</blockquote>

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