Labyrinth Lord: Exploring Zylarthan's Tower

In the last two Tuesday night sessions of Labyrinth Lord, we have plunged deeper into Zylarthan's Tower, avoiding the areas known to be inhabited by Hobgoblins who have proven to learn quickly; setting up deadly traps, and using magic against us. The question is how to go straight for the gold.

Tonight we stumbled into a room of ants. Yes ants, and a large fissure on the floor. Kyle, the locksmith, ended up crushing a couple to death. Emerging out of nowhere came 2 "ant men". Then during combat, another ant man emerged when another ant was crushed to death. It was all the party could do to slay these foes. 1/3 of the party spent the evening unconscious on the floor. But we finally defeated them. No treasure to speak of. We headed back to town empty handed again. So the question is how do you sneak past rooms such as this and find the loot? Hmm there has got to be a smarter way of doing this.

Next week I'm going to try a few things differently.

1. Scouting ahead solo.
2. Not entering every room, but peering in looking for good signs.
3. Exploring corridors to get the "lay of the land"
4. Gag, the half giant before he brings the whole dungeon in on us!

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