Benthesquid
2014-04-21, 05:03 PM
First off, if anyone is playing in a campaign called "Beyond the Wall of Trees," this thread is not for you. Begone!
So, designing an encounter/series of encounters for next week. The party will have the opportunity to take a commission to rescue a pair of Tengu brothers being held prisoner by a flock of Dire Corbies (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/monstrous-humanoids/corby-dire), lead by a Dread Corbie. The Corbies are going to be holed up in a cave in a cliff face. A big part of the challenge will be climbing up the thirty foot cliff while being pelted by rocks.
For our purposes, Corbies are cliff face dwellers, but not necessarily subterranean.
I want to be sure to give the players options for how to handle this, but not to hold their hands or cut them off from coming up with their own methods. So, here's my thought.
1- They'll be told that the Corbies are nocturnal hunters before they reach the cave. If they wait until the bulk of them take off at night, they'll only have to face one sentry.
2- There'll be a slight overhang above the cave mouth, making it possible to climb up at a different point (or loop around to hike up the long but less steep way) and come down from above, largely shielded from the cave mouth until they actually reach it.
3. ???
This is where I ran out of ideas. I'd like to stick to the rule of three and go in with at least three feasible ways the players could accomplish this in mind. So, if you were a low level party without access to flight, how would you go about handling this?
So, designing an encounter/series of encounters for next week. The party will have the opportunity to take a commission to rescue a pair of Tengu brothers being held prisoner by a flock of Dire Corbies (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/monstrous-humanoids/corby-dire), lead by a Dread Corbie. The Corbies are going to be holed up in a cave in a cliff face. A big part of the challenge will be climbing up the thirty foot cliff while being pelted by rocks.
For our purposes, Corbies are cliff face dwellers, but not necessarily subterranean.
I want to be sure to give the players options for how to handle this, but not to hold their hands or cut them off from coming up with their own methods. So, here's my thought.
1- They'll be told that the Corbies are nocturnal hunters before they reach the cave. If they wait until the bulk of them take off at night, they'll only have to face one sentry.
2- There'll be a slight overhang above the cave mouth, making it possible to climb up at a different point (or loop around to hike up the long but less steep way) and come down from above, largely shielded from the cave mouth until they actually reach it.
3. ???
This is where I ran out of ideas. I'd like to stick to the rule of three and go in with at least three feasible ways the players could accomplish this in mind. So, if you were a low level party without access to flight, how would you go about handling this?