Ghoul chest WTF

Nope. Last time I had a monk he flurried fine. As did Turuko, last time I saw him in combat.

Nothing game-breaking, but the spider's chest does have some stuff that's really useful for party that just finished fighting a giant spider, which is frustrating when you can't open it. Everything else is nice to have, but you can afford to wait until later to get it.

 

by the time I remember that I missed half the chests in the moathouse and I'm going back to pay off some gnolls just so I can get to the raided caravan map, the chests are no prblem at that higher level.

 

Does anyone familiar with the original module have a reason to offer for why the chests are still where they currently are and still have items in them? Could never figure that out with the moathouse chests.

 

The upper works stuff is stuff that was either put there by the current occupants (brigands buried chest), missed when the place was sacked. The ivory box in the spider tower was simply that, and was smallish & only worth 50 gp. It was made bigger & filled by Troika. The lower works stuff was put there by the current occupants in some cases. Troika again made up chests, though, both for the giant crayfish & the ghouls. The treasure was originally scattered about under bones, broken weapons, pieces of armor & the like, and one had to search about to collect it.

 

I had forgotten about the Brigand's chest (twenty year ago memories not being perfect), but you are right, they had one buried under the rubble of a fallen wall. I didn't find that in the TOEE game. Is it there?

And now that my memory is jogged, the big viper should have had a jeweled dagger in his nest, worth an absurd amount of money to first level PCs, especially in an area with a middle ages agrarian economy like hommlet. (I think it was worth 850 gp or so) I guess they didn't put that in, unless I just missed as well. I guess if I can't even see a door....

And while on the subject of daggers, why no silver daggers? At least a couple of the members of any party should have silver bladed daggers on their person for the unlikely but possible lycanthrope encounter.

 

Another thing that wasn't there, or that I didn't find, was the stash of leather armor and eye of flame cloaks in a hidden room. That's where one would get enough cloaks to bluff the ogre.

In TOEE, I only found one eye of flame cloak in the whole moathouse. That's not only missing items, but a missed opportunity for the setting as well. The gnome tells you about using the cloaks a little late, indicating that they should have been available, but they don't seem to be there.

 

The cloaks are there - there is a chest with about 8 of them just to the right of the main stairwell down from the front entrance. Lubash the ogre has some pretty funny lines if you talk to him.

 

Thanks guys.

 

I guess that I missed alot of things. I should probably start over anyway, to catch all of the things I missed so far.

 

Be careful. I hear the chests have game-breaking DCs now. Best to avoid them entirely.

 

I actually decided to delete the game and throw away the cd. I can't stand this game with these dcs. This site has ruined the game. thank you co8.

 

Just do what I did and come back for them after you clear the moathouse, so your thief has a better pick locks percentage.

Hey, speaking of locks, do the masterwork thieves tools that you can buy in Nulb give you a bonus?

 

Your sardar is dead on today.