On #Saturday , we finally had another session of our #Ptolus -based #dnd campaign, after an involuntary break of two months. But it was a fun one, despite not having any "real combat".

The PCs continued to explore the ancient ruins beneath the city. Since they have been curb-stomping the monsters they have encountered as of late, I decided to put a tough obstacle in their path: A stone golem (they were three Level 7 characters, and a stone golem is CR 10).

Instead of fighting it to get past it, they decided to distract it so that one party member could sneak through the door it was guarding. This worked like a charm - and luckily for the party, the character who snuck in was the one with common sense.

As in, "Nope, I am NOT going to touch the Obviously Evil Artifact, and leave it right where it is - I'm just going to plunder the rest of the room."

Another character would probably have made a different decision, but _she_ didn't have the shadow powers that would have allowed her to slip under the door.

Anyway, the party got a few further clues towards what happened to bring this old city to ruin, and I have to figure out a new way to tempt the PCs towards Chaos. 😁

In last evening's #ttrpg session, the PCs once again decided to do something entirely different than what I had anticipated, forcing me to improvise.

This is one of the reasons why I prefer to run heavily detailed settings (like #Ptolus ) - knowing a lot of background about the world makes improvising with consistency easier, at least for me.

In the last session of my #DnD campaign (set in #Ptolus ), the PCs successfully raided a slaver hideout, rescued a bunch of slaves, and captured two of the slavers whom they will try to interrogate for further information.

As they have made themselves a target by the backers of the slavers, they will now move into a safehouse where they will be (hopefully) shielded from scrying until this blows over after a few days. So now I need to come up with some ideas for a session where the PCs will be cooped up in the confined space of this safehouse. Any suggestions?

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