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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 4910366" data-attributes="member: 82106">Yeah, I agree. ToH isn't one of those adventures you design using the DMG guidelines. Remember, they are only guidelines. The mechanics of 4e are perfectly adequate to model insta-kill type situations, the guidelines are simply not written with that sort of adventure design in mind. So I would go to town. Make things as deadly as you want. Another related option is to redesign some of the tricks and traps a bit so they do a lot of damage but spread it out a bit more around the party. That will provide plenty of tension as the characters slowly get their surges chewed away at every opportunity without the unfortunate tendency of ToH to obliterate half the PCs in the middle of the adventure and leave players sitting on the sidelines.</blockquote>