Just finished the second session! Made it through rooms 2, 3, and 4a. Room 2 was empty of wolves, though they did find the hidden bag of silver. Room 3 had a great fight with the sturges--fun descriptions of massive strikes (5 on a d6 = "you swat it right out of the air. It smacks against the wall and slides down, leaving a red trail behind it"; 8 on a d8 = "it explodes like a water balloon filled with blood!"). The halfling thief got bit twice and nearly died. But then, after recovering with his healing potion, he crawled into the cleric's arms for "comforting" and promptly picked her pocket of her share of the treasure.
Random encounter with 8 kobolds in the passageway after that. "Eight figures, about halfling size, are standing farther down in the passageway, just at the edge of the light, silently watching you." Their reaction roll was favorable, so I had them just stand and watch until the halfling threw one of the sturge corpses at them, whereupon they fled. I'd like to develop them as a potential neutral force, possibly hoping for the adventurers help in clearing out the goblins and orcs.
The party managed to read the cues regarding the yellow mold in 4a--possibly they recognized it from previous games. The dwarf and cleric were afraid it would explode (rather like the threat in room 13, which they haven't encountered yet). The halfling thief grabbed the torch and threw it while they stood there pondering. They're definitely proceeding cautiously, which I approve of.
There was some debate as to whether they should head back to town at this point, or press onward. They've decided on pressing onward for now.
Boggo wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 2:16 am
While my Relief of Sudbury dungeon isn't Morgansfort it IS a first level dungeoncrawl and my players are averaging 3-5 rooms in a two hour session (though they are also heading back to town to rest, recuperate and get as much magical healing as they can convince the towns two clerics to give them, which takes about 15 minutes of the session
Still not sure how the pacing will work out later, but I'm guessing it'll probably be similar to Boggo's party--i.e. 3-5 rooms in a two hour session, which could be 6-8 sessions to get through it all. I think it seems like an appropriate pace.