Marna, the party druid, inspired all with a false sense of confidence when she, first, cast flaming sphere and managed to scorch the Roper with (1.5 x (3 x (3D6 + 3))) damage, and then managed to cast some "turn earth/stone to mud" spell on the roof of the cavern over the Roper, dropping what we judged to be about 10D6 worth of "falling clay deadfall" damage to the Roper.
Pretty much all on her own, Marna removed 120 HP from the creature.
If it had been me, I'd have been screaming, "We did how much damage and the thing is still up? We need to book, now!"
Granted, the party did at that point realize they were well in over their heads, but they weren't able to fully extricate in time. 25% party losses seem rather better than things might have ended up.
I was least kind enough to only assess the STR drain on "first contact of filament" and not as ongoing damage, or even "every time you get hit with a filament", and this probably saved our heroes from a TPK.
I was told, grimly, to save the home-fashioned creature token and not recycle it, because, "we'll be coming back". Fair enough. At least they now know how deadly the damn thing is, and how susceptible it is to fire... and how many experience points the thing is worth (::shudder::).
The trouble with the Roper's position in the module is the Big Boss Fight really is a doddle if the party has any kind of success against the Roper... 8P
Mind you, I have some plans for when the party finally makes it into the Big Boss Fight that will toughen it up significantly (and help to tie the module better into the overall RotRL story). Not revealed here for obvious reasons.... 8)
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Pretty much all on her own, Marna removed 120 HP from the creature.
If it had been me, I'd have been screaming, "We did how much damage and the thing is still up? We need to book, now!"
Granted, the party did at that point realize they were well in over their heads, but they weren't able to fully extricate in time. 25% party losses seem rather better than things might have ended up.
I was least kind enough to only assess the STR drain on "first contact of filament" and not as ongoing damage, or even "every time you get hit with a filament", and this probably saved our heroes from a TPK.
I was told, grimly, to save the home-fashioned creature token and not recycle it, because, "we'll be coming back". Fair enough. At least they now know how deadly the damn thing is, and how susceptible it is to fire... and how many experience points the thing is worth (::shudder::).
The trouble with the Roper's position in the module is the Big Boss Fight really is a doddle if the party has any kind of success against the Roper... 8P
Mind you, I have some plans for when the party finally makes it into the Big Boss Fight that will toughen it up significantly (and help to tie the module better into the overall RotRL story). Not revealed here for obvious reasons.... 8)