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When the game was being planned the only character thought out
beforehand was Dave. Although there are some differences, Dave is an
exaggerated version of Dave the Barbarian from the Temple of Eternity
campaign and played by the same player. The DM, knowing that Dave was
going to be in the campaign but not knowing what kinds of characters the
other players were going to play, had trouble balancing the prison
break. Because no regular cell could hold Dave he intentionally started
him separately. However there was no guarantee any other random
character would have the skills or abilities to break out on their own
so he added the character of "Jack the Unlucky" to help the party get
out of the cells. Jack only had 3 HP and was meant to die quickly. All
the characters were vetted by the DM, especially the ones with the
custom classes, however this was done after the campaign had been mostly
planned out by the DM.
Like Jack, Zergiot was meant to be a disposable character to give Conan
something to do besides make strength rolls for Dave to break the chains
while the rest of the party broke out of prison. This is why he's such a
ridiculous concept of a wizard that wears armor and fights with a sword.
Unlike Jack, Zergiot survived however.
The DM said there were two major surprises that happened, the first was
that the lookout spotted us. The lookout was scanning the horizon with a
spyglass and it was only the fact he got a natural 20 that he managed to
spot us. He admitted that he was certain the party was going to wipe at
this point as while he put a finite number of guards in the fort there
were more then enough to swarm us and they had all been alerted with the
palantir. The 2nd surprise was that we didn't destroy the water control
panels. They were meant to be picklocked but the party gave up to early
on it (Moriarty was apparently unlucky with his lockpick rolls). While
he did plan for the party attempting to bash the locks, he planned that
they were very sensitive and only hitting the DC exactly would work. If
the strength check roll was under the DC then of course it wouldn't
break but if the roll was even one point over it would permanently
damage the mechanism making it worthless. He honestly expected us to
have Dave try to smash it and destroy it.