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Message: <blockquote data-quote="erucsbo" data-source="post: 3696513" data-attributes="member: 40110">well - they are heading south to J. They are level 10 though, and a full party has 8 characters so they should be able to handle most things.I had them encounter the lantern archon in N and they had avoided touching the doors, and wisely realised that they might be in big trouble. The fighter has a scarab of golembane and detected the golems.They went in to the mound of rock and encountered the devourer.Now - here is the quandry of having an NPC as the moral compass.The NPC is a paladin of Tyr and never strikes first unless the situation demands it (ie - to prevent a creature doing damage to others etc). The party members pile in to the room and start going at the devourer, with all of them missing, including spellcasters failing SR rolls. The paladin didn't attack because the devourer was grovelling.BECAUSE of this the party decided to try negotiation instead, though not before the devourer did Confusion on the party.The party backed out without continuing the battle, but I am still worried about the philosophy that they carry that if something looks evil then it probably is and therefore should be attacked first before any questions are asked. This sort of attitude is going to get them slaughtered in the diplomacy rich areas of J and eventually N, and while the paladin is not going to play counter-type, I still want to make sure that they don't use her as the only way to know what "good" is supposed to be.And the quote of the night was "let's go south and release Tyrus". It was a verbal slipup - they meant deal with Tyrus, but it was still pretty funny at the time.And for the record - the open plain in the north of M (and far west of N) is more boring than an unaltered region A - but thankfully able to be navigated out of far quicker.Now to read up on J and troll back through the several thousand entries here for tips  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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