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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 5923926" data-attributes="member: 79141">Here's an idea that might help you if you are worried that your inexperienced players might fail to stop the destruction of the Coaltongue (and bring about an early TPK in the process):When I was prepping this adventure I was concerned that I would fudge the countdown (if it came down to it) because I wouldn't want to go through character generation all over again (I mean, who would?)  I decided that if the PCs failed and blew the ship sky-high I would immediately have the party's Skyseer awake from a sweat-soaked nightmare with a terrible, non-specific foreboding about the security mission that lay ahead.Then we'd skip to the point where the party discover the plot, and run the whole encounter again.  (If they screwed up twice, I reasoned, then they derserved to die!)Bit of a bizarre idea, but it meant I could be as ruthless as I liked and still have a back-up option. If you don't have a Skyseer, it could be any 'mystic/magic' character in the party.</blockquote>