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Dear players,

Kazaven's last fight.

It took two encounters to get him, but Kazaven fell.
Trying my best not to have a repeat of the previous fight with just a (hopefully) different die roll per action; I decided to change the tactics from what was written in the adventure book. It could have worked, but did not, because I had not expected Marcus to end up standing on the lid of that sarcophagus.
Further and more focused reading taught me that the three sarcophagi were trapped, but this did not make sense. Technically, it was better for only one of them to have all the loot and the phylactery, thus only that one being trapped. So, I rolled on with my initial view and let the party benefit from a clever move.
As you may have noticed, Liches are very unlikely to have the strength of a raging Barbarian. Poor Kazaven was more like Mr Burns in the Simpsons: pure evil but with STR 10, thus barely able to lift open the trapped sarcophagus in the first instance.

Vaults of Greed.

Too bad the greedy Mystic Theurge did not lead the party into the Vaults of Greed the false door trap would have been cool. Greedy or not, it was about to spring.
The Baleful Polymorph transmuting and teleporting mist was fun. We can easily ret-con that Thorak turned into a gold fish too in order to maintain the suspension of disbelief.
Ordikon is the next powerful mage to bump into. This one is pretty crazy.
I need to double check if he is actually evil.

Smaller vaults.

Indeed as the adventure progresses, the vaults are getting smaller and smaller. In a way this makes sense as the sins that are left tend to be more selfish than the others. Envy should have had a big dungeon, but since a battle took place there, it ended-up being collapsed. Gluttony was all about excess, hence a large complex. This is what I like in Rise of the Runelords the design and general background (not always available to the PCs I agree) make a lot of sense.

The game carries on in two weeks time, hopefully the party's bat will be back.

Laurent,