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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eccles" data-source="post: 1152817" data-attributes="member: 5675">Having recently gone past this encounter, I'd say you got all the individual NPC's characters almost spot on. That said, I opted for a roleplaying route...After the PCs had finished hacking up the guards on the ground floor, I teleported the Archmage (invisible) into the top of the tower, and he announced himself to the party. After a fairly nervous chat, the players decided they didn't want to take on an archmage and all of his students, and actually reached an agreement with him (as hinted at in the book). The Archmage would withdraw any arcane casters, and the PCs would leave him (and a lot of the drow commonners) alone.As the PCs had already butchered every drow arcane caster outside the Tower, the Archmage wasn't actually giving the PCs anything at all, but they didn't know that. Which struck me as suitably "drow" thinking......Mind you, after 39 days (mostly spent resting and equipping in Dagger Falls), you wouldn't believe how many encounters they've missed or avoided by accident!</blockquote>