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<blockquote data-quote="mikegillnz" data-source="post: 4597982" data-attributes="member: 61963"><p>Over the weekend my regular gaming group had our annual make a high level character you don't care about and run a monster gauntlet for fun game. This was the first one we'd tried for 4th ed (obviously I suppose).</p><p> </p><p>It went pretty well, lots of wacky encounters and as a finale I gave the party their choice of BBEGs to take on. They went for Tiamat (mostly because Orcus is the assumed capstone fight for the H1-3/P1-3/E1-3 campaign that we're playing in our main campaign).</p><p> </p><p>Perhaps unsuprisingly Tiamat was a party wipe. Now, I understand that she's a lvl 35 encounter which is at the extreme edge of what a lvl 30 party can take. They had poor initiative rolls which let two of her heads go before any of the party did which certainly had a big impact on the course of the fight.</p><p> </p><p>At the same time they weren't perfectly balanced to fight her, with a striker heavy party (rogue, barbarian, ranger, swordmage, warlord) but the sheer level of ongoing damage and status effects she can pump out seems crazy.</p><p> </p><p>So I guess my question is: Was this just a combination of Tiamat being at the fringe of what a lvl 30 party can take, combining with poor PC rolls and good DM ones, or is Tiamat designed to not be beatable without significant DM fiat? (something in the order of a weapon designed specifically to slay her that makes her regularly hittable; armour providing resistance to all 5 elements she deals; or some other plot device).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mikegillnz, post: 4597982, member: 61963"] Over the weekend my regular gaming group had our annual make a high level character you don't care about and run a monster gauntlet for fun game. This was the first one we'd tried for 4th ed (obviously I suppose). It went pretty well, lots of wacky encounters and as a finale I gave the party their choice of BBEGs to take on. They went for Tiamat (mostly because Orcus is the assumed capstone fight for the H1-3/P1-3/E1-3 campaign that we're playing in our main campaign). Perhaps unsuprisingly Tiamat was a party wipe. Now, I understand that she's a lvl 35 encounter which is at the extreme edge of what a lvl 30 party can take. They had poor initiative rolls which let two of her heads go before any of the party did which certainly had a big impact on the course of the fight. At the same time they weren't perfectly balanced to fight her, with a striker heavy party (rogue, barbarian, ranger, swordmage, warlord) but the sheer level of ongoing damage and status effects she can pump out seems crazy. So I guess my question is: Was this just a combination of Tiamat being at the fringe of what a lvl 30 party can take, combining with poor PC rolls and good DM ones, or is Tiamat designed to not be beatable without significant DM fiat? (something in the order of a weapon designed specifically to slay her that makes her regularly hittable; armour providing resistance to all 5 elements she deals; or some other plot device). [/QUOTE]
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