OOC

No vacation here but I do have a broken right shoulder, so what posts I do make will probably be a bit more terse than usual.

What happened?!

Fall on stairs at work. Landed on cement floor. Failed both Dex and Con saves.

At least it's not worse, and I'm glad you had good healers available.

Agreed. I was pretty fortunate. Didn't hit my head or anything. Didn't even damage the floor. Lol! ;)

didn't damage the floor because you didn't hit your head?

Precisely. My head is really hard. Just ask my wife. Lol!

Must be more active.
After the time tunnel, let's explore 3/the tomb.

Perfect

Posting as player, not as DM and only trying to be helpful, not criticize, but I know my as person persuasion skill is very low, so please bear with me if it doesn't sound helpful at all. I only try to be

Do you fear of making mistakes ? Fear of regret?
This may have been a geniality of module designer or coincidence, but I believe that the idea is following: all the hints that designer of this dungeon put there are not designed to help you, but to fear. To fear the mistake.

So trying to be helpful I'm reading some articles on overcoming this paralysis. Option to base decision on data is not your option - this module is designed to force you go train and error path. But other ides such as "accept that mistakes will happen", "use deadlines" and "Don’t consider too many options".

Your DM could try to help implementing last two if you ask him, but yet again - I'm posting this only as a person trying to be helpful. As a DM I will be waiting for your decision as long as it takes (well probably not longer than 2 weeks).

I find it helpful what you write. I'm only back from vacation so didn't want to make any decisions, being away for some time and maybe not realizing everything:) But soon Zean will be full in his "curious mode":)

I think I'm novice GM, but when I have read about "use deadlines" - understood by me as 'always considering that not making a decision is a decision, and the time flows so something bad can happen if you will think/debate too long, so there is a time pressure' (mainly from [liked by me] OSR style approach) - it made a lot of sense. If there is not time pressure why not play it the most safe way? :)

From my side: I think I will be more proactive and risky from now on - thanks for pointing all of this out:)

I have a one minute "hour glass" timer behind my GM screen. When my players are dithering endlessly I put it out on the table. They get the idea very quickly. ;)

honestly, I think one of the issues I am running into is generally how I figured Throgin would follow more during exploration encounters, unless being a bumbling fool. I think the "stakes" of the exploration have "froze" me (the player) a bit into falling back into this instead of working on the "run into it like a dope" method more.

Throgin is VERY quick to act in combat and breaking stuff, slow in exploration. Hindsight/learning might need to be a bit less focused on this to help the group as a whole.

A bit busy atm. I'll catch up over the weekend.

Love this art! Can I print it and hang in my living room? ;)

Seriously: you caught the epic'ness of the situation perfectly:)

Tinks' wings are almost as perfect as my legs!P.S. This time completely serious: thanks for your efforts to explain the situation so well!

BTW the 'pour' was about possibility of water getting into the closed sarcophagus/stone coffin after it is closed, not the gargoyles heads:)

Thanks for Rules clarification - I get what you meant, and fully submit to your decision here:)