Comments on: Pathfinder 10 – Evil, nasty clockses, we hates them!

By: Mini-Link: The Stew, the Rant and the Barbarian! : Critical Hits

Mini-Link: The Stew, the Rant and the Barbarian! : Critical Hits — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:53:47 +0000

[...] my good friend Graham recently outdid himself in a Campaign log/Rant post about his last Pathfinder game and the weaknesses of the 1st adventure [...]

By: ToBFanatic

ToBFanatic — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:23:18 +0000

I just ran this encounter at the last session. Well, sort of; from this and many other sources, I knew Xanesha would slaughter my party. So I took the simple expedient of switching Xanesha with Lucrecia, the Lamia Matriarch in Hook Mountain Massacre who is a TWF rogue. She’s still a deadly opponent, but easier to hit, and with fewer devestating powers. It helped that my players managed to interrogate Ironbriar for information on her, and bought up Invisibility and Spider Climb scrolls to climb up the side of the tower and SWAT team her in the surprise round.

By: Kris

Kris — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:58:32 +0000

Aw, too bad you didn’t keep your notes. Thanks for getting back to me so quickly, though!

I really enjoy reading about your group’s adventures, so thanks for posting them, too.

By: Graham

Graham — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:30:19 +0000

If I had the stat blocks any more, I would, but I never really had them in the first place.

For the most part, my edits were on post-it notes in the margins of the books, and I didn’t keep the piles of post-its I used for over a year, including our group switching to 4th edition.

Aside from the monsters, the gear room is actually content from a published book, and is copyrighted. I couldn’t post it here legally if I wanted to.

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:50:17 +0000

I’m glad I read this, because I’m going to run this adventure soon and I don’t have the experience for changing monsters. I don’t suppose you feel like posting the stat blocks for your altered monsters and the gear room? It would be great if you did!

By: Rustle

Rustle — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:23:01 +0000

It is a tough ending to the adventure but that is where the GM comes in. I played everything according to book (except I kept forgetting the wisdom drain) but also looked at it as a learning experience for the Lamia. Here are these evil thugs that keep messing with her bosses plans for bringing back civilization to the world. Her necklace lets him know everything that she sees so in the combat she tests each player character. She has learned the party is ranged attack weak. Hurt badly she flies off determined to finish the party. Learns they are going to Turtleback so seeks out and charms a couple of harpies from the Marshfens to help attack them on the boat. Well that will be the beginning of the next session.

By: Graham

Graham — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:57:58 +0000

Sigh.

It’s coming, Reza.

By: reza

reza — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:43:54 +0000

*friendly poke* Post about our games! I wanna see the ’ship mini’!

By: Noumenon

Noumenon — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:11:06 +0000

Basically, the increase from Large to Huge size created a monster easily capable of a TPK, when it should’ve merely been a “difficult” encounter.

Is that because Owlbears use Grapple and huge creatures get a grapple bonus?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:26:43 +0000

Without going through the numbers myself, it sounds like the Lamia Matriarch was either an issue of blind advancement by the numbers (both with respect to abilities and non-standard equipment prices) or a total brain-fart.

I ran into a similar problem when I did a “by the numbers” advancement of an Owlbear to CR 7 or so. Basically, the increase from Large to Huge size created a monster easily capable of a TPK, when it should’ve merely been a “difficult” encounter.

Of course, the happy side effect of the near TPK was to throw me into a path that would result in the 4thification of my 3E game. It’s working pretty durned well so far and my players don’t even know how massively the monsters have been changed.