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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Corathon" data-source="post: 4985285" data-attributes="member: 22238">The cavalier and the ranger (and a henchman or 2 ) charged in and attacked the giants. They (foolishly) separated and were getting surrounded and pounded by giants. My polymorphed MU was hiding in the rafters, blasting in every round with wand or spell to try to kill enough giants to keep the rash fighter-types alive. Hell, no! We avoided most of the Kuo-toa. Wasn't our mission. Nver played in this one or ran it. I ran this one, rather than playing it. The group got the gem, no souls sucked. I think that someone was bleached white, though. We spent a lot of time in the Temple, but never reached the demoness. I've both played in this one and run it. In both, Lolth was ultimately destroyed. In the version that I played we used something (a psionic teleport? Can't remember) to get on Lolth's back and kill her. In the version that I ran, Lolth had allowed/baited the group into the Demonweb so that she could trick them into performing a chaotic and evil act - that way she wouldn't just get to kill them, but to keep their souls for all eternity. The group didn't fall for that, and when they finally confonted the demoness hasted, strengthened, and ready for a fight she banished them with an unholy word - except the paladin, whose magic resistance (he had a holy avenger sword) protected him. That left just the paladin alone against Lolth. The overconfident demoness toyed with the paladin, but he had a surpise up his sleeve - and item that she didn't know that he had - that allowed him to close with her and use that holy sword in melee. Plus 10 damage vs. chaotic evil, plus strength bonus, plus haste plus some good die luck told the story. We lost no one in the Tomb until the battle with Acererak due to good planning and (in one case) good luck. In the battle against the skull we lost only one man. Not much you can do to avoid some death in that battle.</blockquote>

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