Does Ezren's spells like Burning hands, ray of frost, and magic missles get affected by Hardness?

If not they may be a better way of getting some damage on this thing.

Actually, it depends. Some Energy Attacks are not effective against some objects. For example, a metal door attacked with fire is likely not going to be affected even if the damage against living things would be above the hardness level (you can burn a stone wall all day and in the end you've just got hot rocks!). But fire against thatch... well that's likely to be more effective.

So ray of frost is likely not going to affect the cauldron. Burning hands is likely not going to affect the cauldron. But using one right after the other?! Brittle-city! Especially if Valeros were to smash it after such a combination... think outside the box!

Think a little outside the box... the thing has shaky legs... maybe try sweeping with your staff and knock a leg out to make it prone (giving others +2 to hit it).

There are lots of things I'd allow... more than I even know

Hmm.. would that still require an attack roll ?

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In case anyone is interested.

I attacked the amulet because I thought Mersiels idea was a really cool twist. While it didn't work it has me wondering, what happens if players mess up part of the planned story. Let's say that amulet was really important to the story line and there isn't a planned alternative in the written scenario to move the story along without it.

Does the GM just invent something new that picks up the missing threads? How often does this hypothetical event happens where the players jump off the rails? Have you ever run into the situation where its just game over like a hero drops the item that was supposed to save the world into a lake of lava?

Most players are good to their GMs and will bite on various plot hooks - but rarely does an adventure go exactly as planned.

I thought I was following your lead...all this talk about a creepy amulet along with a cauldron that (seemingly) couldn't be damaged. Merisel put 2 and 2 together...but unfortunately came up with 5.

Tis okay. It's an artifact... likely bound up with some evil magics. Sometimes such things can be beneficial to a group of adventurers. Sometimes they come with 'strings attached'. Destroying it wasn't the worst nor the best thing you could have done with it

Dave

You had mentioned that this adventure was free. After its over i'd like to know where to get it as I'm dying to know what message we missed...but I can be good and wait until we are done.

Hello chaps,

This story is more addictive than Emmerdale Farm.

Great job on the role playing banter and in particular the DMing.

How does an old bloke from the UK get involved in an adventure such as this? I notice that there is often quite a delay between posts. Do players simply post when they get the chance, or do you co-ordinate schedules to be on-line at the same time?

Well done. Eagerly awaiting the dungeon expedition.

Regards,
fentum

I just log on whenever I can...you can usually tell where I'm logging on from. Ifs its brief with the occasionally really odd word I'm on my phone and its spelling aid is screwy so Ezren becomes extensive unless I catch it and tell it not to fix it.

When I'm on my desktop or laptop I tend to have enough time to get more into the post.

How does an old bloke from the UK get involved in an adventure such as this? I notice that there is often quite a delay between posts. Do players simply post when they get the chance, or do you co-ordinate schedules to be on-line at the same time?