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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 7724389" data-attributes="member: 6785785">It depends how you play it. For PCs of 1st level, you have 79 days to complete the quest. However, since this is not explicitly stated unless the DM decides to share how many HP Syndra has remaining, it can be fudged as needed. I would expect most parties to feel a sense of urgency, but not necessarily feel like immediate resolution is needed. But I don't think they'll know "we have 79 days to take care of this."For these parties, gaining levels will help offset the HP lost to the curse. I think that based solely on hexes it's about 35 or so hexes between Nyanzaru and Omu, but that doesn't count for getting lost or going on sidequests or lingering in certain locations. So I think 60 days or so is likely a reasonable expectation to have. That's a rough guess based on what I've read so far. Obviously some groups may go quicker and others may take more time. It's hard to say, but that 79 day timeframe seems likely to at least threaten to come into play. Starting at level 5 shouldn't alter that HP buffer since it will just be a matter of the PCs starting off with a lot of the HP instead of gaining them all as they level. But the module does assume the curse has been in effect for 20 days as the adventure starts, so anyone affected would already be down by 20 max HP. That's how I'll handle it for my 10th level PCs. The two that have been raised will be down 20 HP to start and lose 1 per day. I personally don't think it's too severe.</blockquote>

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