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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jim pinto" data-source="post: 1745368" data-attributes="member: 17619">you know you can ignore them, right?[we even say you can ignore them]btw...following two threads is going to cause my head to burstso if anyone needs me to chime in on this board, pleasee-mail me or post on the previous thread.thanks, twofalls, for making this though... it cuts downon spoilers.btw (part 2)....i understand and respect everyone's need to add a varietyof monsters to this region. in hindsight, i wish there had beenmore orcs and kobolds in the region, but there is only a limitednumber of low-level monsters in the SRD.and if you read the entire region (specifically A100 through A104),you'll see the cause of the problem and you can easily justifyadding just about any monster you like to the Region, so longas its fiendish.but since people are complaining that Region B is too hardbecause of the traps, i'm at a loss as to how we could havemade this Region more challenging without killing PCs.its my belief that the DMs main job in a dungeon crawl is tomonitor what the PCs can overcome and what they can't.if the PCs are ready for it, send the fiendish owlbear afterthem. or drop in a fiendish harpy, dire animal (so they havesomething to eat), cloaker, or perhaps a creature from RegionI that has somehow snuck passed all the wards and creaturesin Region E (ooooo..... foreshadowing).i think your games are going to go a lot better once you readwhat's on the adjacent maps and start placing importantclues or hints of what's to come.and if you like, drop a lantern archon in the Region (in an empty)room that is merely there for the PCs to ask questions of.decide ahead of time what it knows (probably nothing aboutthe traps and new monsters) and only answer questions itcan answer.that's enough advice for one day</blockquote>

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