ricardo440
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Our groups Barbarian (level 5) had his second outing on monday evening.
We only did one small fight (a level 3 encounter, one against some goblins and a bugbear from thunderspire labyrinth C1 I think)
It is good to have a striker in the group now, as a GM it makes things a little easier as we can actually get fights resolved quicker now.
I have to say I have not been shocked by the damage that the Barbarian can do. He is doing about 19 a turn when he hit (this is as a GM hearing what he says, not thinking about actual powers he was using over the fight). Nothing excessive, I'm sure my ranger was doing something similar if slightly less at his level.
But he does pay for it, he is squishy. He is taking a beating every round, they had poorly positioned themselves so the barbarian was getting far more attacks than the paladin (whose AC is much greater). But during the fight he received 2 healing words, and used his second wind (as a dwarf). Nobody else really got hurt.
For an encounter -2 of their level, that concerns me as a GM.
We only did one small fight (a level 3 encounter, one against some goblins and a bugbear from thunderspire labyrinth C1 I think)
It is good to have a striker in the group now, as a GM it makes things a little easier as we can actually get fights resolved quicker now.
I have to say I have not been shocked by the damage that the Barbarian can do. He is doing about 19 a turn when he hit (this is as a GM hearing what he says, not thinking about actual powers he was using over the fight). Nothing excessive, I'm sure my ranger was doing something similar if slightly less at his level.
But he does pay for it, he is squishy. He is taking a beating every round, they had poorly positioned themselves so the barbarian was getting far more attacks than the paladin (whose AC is much greater). But during the fight he received 2 healing words, and used his second wind (as a dwarf). Nobody else really got hurt.
For an encounter -2 of their level, that concerns me as a GM.