Gnolls and Mirrors

With Borris back the party went after the remaining gnolls. Highlights include:

1. Everyone being very impressed by the Barlgura. He didn’t end up being a very effective damage dealer, but he was scary! Also, I got to play around with using a stunt to grab Borris and carry him along.

2. Carolyn being pretty funny with her character’s women’s lib shtick. She kept bugging the female Gnoll Scourge about a rally and how great it was that she was an empowered woman and stuff. Then the gnoll and barlgura knocked her unconscious.

3. Getting everyone to talk to some teiflings instead of killing them.

4. Having cool stuff to give when they searched the Scourge’s room.

The Hall of Enforced Retrospection was an encounter that I was really excited about running, because it was quite different than anything we had done before. Didn’t work out perfectly though.

1. Dakkon’s low will defense and his charge ahead attitude got him sent to a separate room to battle a crazed and starving gnoll alone. He rolled a crit though, and I ruled that since he did more than the creature’s bloodied value in one hit, he took him out. Cool, but ended up boring for Brian since he basically had to sit the rest of the encounter out. I should have been more obvious about how to get him out.

2. Aderes spent most of the battle trying to get Dakkon out of the Oubliette of the Empty Mind, and succeeded on a skill challenge to get him out.

3. Everyone took advantage of the teleporting mirrors after they were identified, and used them to traverse the room. This was kind of cool.

4. Boneclaw skellies exploding a lot. Makes a DM proud.

One problem I keep running into that is hard to get past is not knowing how much info to provide the players. I don’t want to give everything away, but if they don’t get enough info they are just confused, not curious. I guess I’ll just keep giving them more, and see when it gets to be too much. We are just trying to have fun, after all.