Fine fine...
So long as I get someone separate from the Paladin, who's freakin' Smite evil will overcome all of it's defenses, shouldn't be need more then one to crush at least one of my players. And with one death and my Paladins smite used up, they must then escape. No need to use two bears to make the suffering end sooner I say.
Better make it two.
It's when they are full of hope I pull out the Sentient, Devil possessed Clockwork bear.
Bt building the scenario by giving them hope they can survive and then when they think they will pull through, you take it away from them.
Well if I'm not being fair about it where is the fun in it for me? Being unfair and I'd have not challenge in killing my players the first encounter.
You're too soft.
Well I'm not going to give them warning about the upcoming dungeon, but as I said I want to be fair. If I was just going to flat out kill them I'd just bring in a Kyton already.
Why bother giving them fair warning and time to level up?
It sounded like that particular group was pretty aware of the dangers of the level one kobolds by that point, at least with how fearful they sounded right off the back. And I was referring to the Kobold area being handled fairly easily by an illusionist, not the DM using illusions. Of course this would require one of the players to have a focus on illusions. Conjuration could also come in handy, ore a clever Transmutation specialist. Maybe not Transmutation, the spells to clear it may be higher level then what I'm remembering, never really did much with Transmutation when I played casters. Of course these all involve going in intentionally building the types of casters who can handle pretty much any situation with ease, so it depends if those are your kind of players or not. Regardless, I'm probably leveling up my PC's once more before running my clock work dungeon on them, I realized when building it they probably aren't quite equipped to handle what I'm wanting them to do yet.
