So, where I’m at rn. I’m almost finished with act one in Honor mode. Am just about to kill Nere and that should give me the XP needed to hit 6 and kill the forge golem from the top ropes and move on. Only problem is, I haven’t seen Raphael once.

I had planned from the beginning of this run to KO him in camp and take his armor but it’s like he senses my intentions and has not appeared at all. I haven’t done anything special to hunt him down or anything at all, I figured I would see him at the bridge to the gnolls like I have literally every single run before this (4) but I didn’t ?? I thought okay cool things went a bit different this time. Fast forward the entire rest of grove quest line( dark urge so sided with minthara), auntie Ethel, and 3 longrests in the underdark completing the main portion of it. I STILL have not seen him.

It’s not essential to my run to have his armor or anything and if I messed it up I wasn’t worried about it but this just seems glitchy almost. Am I missing some sort of trigger somewhere??? The only thing I can think of is that I went to the gnoll bridge SLIGHTLY earlier than usual. Like I was still level 3 but hadn’t interacted with the dead true soul dwarf and his friends.

Anyway, thanks regardless. Again is not essential (just beneficial) to my run. Just wanted to check to make sure I wasn’t missing something obvious before moving to act 2