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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JediSoth" data-source="post: 2678298" data-attributes="member: 13882">My player's got to J via the Halls of Flesh. Unfortunately, no one has a search skill high enough to find any of the clues to really destroy Madness or Anguish (the highest search roll they can get by taking 20 is 28). They don't have a dedicated rogue and no one has been pumping skill points into Search. I decided about 5 sessions ago to quit giving them freebies. I told them they needed a rogue, but no one listened. The explored about 25% of I before fleeing to J when Madness regenerated an hour after the "killed" him.As for a replacement, the dead character was a sorcerer/monk. The player wants to make a pseudodragon rogue this time (they FINALLY got my hint about the DCs of traps and secret doors when I told them that they would never find a secret door or a trap in the rest of the dungeon because they long ago exited the areas where a 28 was high enough). Since the theme of my WLD is pretty much "anything goes" I'm allowing it. It certainly won't be as overpowered as the Goliath Barbarian/Cleric (who is reluctant to heal anyone else these days, so it's like not having a cleric).Frankly, I'm surprised I haven't had a TPK yet. For a long time they had no arcane or divine magic. If I wasn't so lazy about random encounters (plus cutting them out is a way to control XP) and some of the environmental conditions (I keep forgetting about a lot of them), they would've been dead long ago. I will freely admit, I ignored the damaging effects of the Pyrefaust in most of the areas because I was really, really sick of the Halls of Flesh and I wanted them to move on. It was getting frustrating for me to have to keep telling them they don't find anything because they weren't good enough to find it.In retrospect, I wouldn't have said "anything goes" if I had to start over. I would make them stick to the PHB and AE (which no one is using anyway), and maybe Complete [Class]. I have learned that Goliaths have NO place in my campaigns...particularly since we have a min-maxer power gamer behind him.JediSoth</blockquote>

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