It actually ended up making Nox (the Dex-based Swordsage) more effective than normal. It could have been interesting. Unfortunately, the encounter in the room just didn’t last long enough to get any noticeable effect from it.

Additionally, that makes them all vertical above each other. In some circumstances, this will make the battle immensely tougher, as the characters can’t reach the monsters. In our case, only the cleric would have trouble, but still. The monsters themselves become rather useless, however, as they lose their ability to attack, other than to spray web every 5 rounds.

Besides all that, these are three CR 6 creatures. Against a level 11 party. This becomes an annoying speedbump with some web to brush off afterwards.

Yeah… I’m glad I got rid of that.

All that said, welcome to the site.

I’ve been following your session summaries for a while now, and will hopefully soon by running the AP for my players.

If I remember correctly, in the eliminated second encounter above, didn’t the gargantuan beasties have a listed Climb speed? I agree that it’s still a tight squeeze, but that could make for an interesting fight.

I would still have been worried about the number of fireballs even with Evasion, but we also realized that I can only fail that particular reflex save on a natural 1 (DC 14, I have Reflex 15)