@Zaer: Cool on Aid another. It's nice to know if you screw up & can do, we can point this out & then try it ourselves :P That's perfectly fair.<br/><br/>On the encounter - we're doing badly, but finally get to start trying something... And well, this IS a fun group. Really fun! It's huge & chaotic & impossible to follow at times... And yes your encounter is too hard - but part of adventuring is screwing up (which we were bound to do anyway!) so getting our butts kicked & forming some tactics in hindsight is just fun.<br/><br/>You made this hard - much harder than you expected. But it's fun. So smile lots ok? :P<br/><br/>Btw - I totally guessed that the masterwork gear was tied up with the missing acolytes & I bet, a certain rich lord. Though I must admit, I was just planning to string as many masterwork bows as I could carry across my back and leg it back to town so I can afford to buy myself some platemail- before seeing what your second encounter was...<br/><br/>And now, if you'll excuse me, I need to order either a belt of infertility or a belt of feminity/masculinity... I so don't want to find out the odds that the next orc encounter CAN make us pregnant...<br/><br/>@Chulanowa: I just read what action points can do. Ohhh... I can actually be useful now! They affect spells & caster levels... Thankies!