Doors and Statistics and Monty Haul - Is MitD helping?

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Also, the massive slugfest can still serve to murder anyone who comes looking for the gate, adding to its defenses while putting the actual gate elsewhere. Or the actual hidden door could have even more monsters behind it.

But either way, I totally don't think the gate is behind any of those doors. Why would she do that? Kraagor's belief in physical strength doesn't require being stupid. And putting the gate in an obvious place is stupid. If you're going to set up a big "THE GATE IS HERE" display, you put the gate somewhere else.

Also, again - her statements about how she's defending her gate come from her. If we're assuming she's willing to be deceptive - and, again, regardless of her alignment, she was a rogue, so she absolutely was - there's no reason she'd give anyone the full details, especially knowing that one of them is a Paladin who won't lie to others, making him a security risk.

If she's going to add a twist at the end to add another layer of security, she's obviously not going to tell anyone. That would defeat the whole purpose of it.

(There's also a narrative issue to consider here. Why have the defenses on Kraagor's gate be built by Serini if they're going to be exactly the defenses Kraagor himself would build? What's the narrative purpose of having an extra member of the Order of the Scribble, and to have Serini, a rogue, building the gate for Kraagor, the fighter? I mean, there's a lot of possible answers to that, and "it's just part of the story for other reasons" is valid, but it's something to consider.)