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I'm pretty certain the mount was some kind of elite, likely a couple levels higher than we were. By itself it would have been a hard fight, but with two powerful bounty hunters along for the ride (likely a few levels higher than us in their own right) it was just plain nasty. It didn't help that...

link please. :d

In a recent game our party was in full retreat through the jungle after having been beaten to a pulp by a band of bounty hunters and their brutish monster (a macetail behemoth I think) that bore them about via an oversized war chariot. The second cleric in our party, the child Cala, was...

And here I thought that everybody knew that the DMG rules for cover were messed up, in need of errata, and shouldn't be used. Guess that's just true on the WotC forums. Or perhaps I am just very, very wrong in my blanket statement. :p

You can't retrain something if it is a prerequisite for something else, so your question is moot.

Thought this might help clear a few things up. :D

The Penguin is absolutely correct. The game actually *gasps* gets harder at higher levels! Who would have thunk' it? :hmm:

I don't think you can quick draw an item that is on the ground--only those items on your person.

I usually play softer characters (rogues, wizards) when compared to the rest of my party (cleric, fighter, paladin, ranger) and I find that when I run out of healing surges, my "friends" usually have at least half of theirs left. What's more, they almost always ignore my pleas to take a rest for...

Really wish I had this advice BEFORE I ran the encounter. That sounds like so much more fun.

I keep hearing that (somebody else mentioned it on the WotC boards). The thing is, it is an average encounter for a 7th-level party--meaning they are expected to win barring some kind of outrageously bad luck. I don't see it that way. I see it as an extremely hard (but appropriate) 2nd-level...

Dude, they've had all 5 on YouTube like, forever. :hmm:

I'll have you know that I have not once called my players idiots or in any way demeaned them due to this game. The only reason I am such a hardass in this thread is because I understand the internet culture well enough to know that such provocative post nets more responses--such as the one you...

I used their passive Perceptions before I announced the surprise round. They all failed. Also, I deliberately wanted it to be an extremely hard encounter (in which one PC may well die) because cleansing the cursed town of Dortimir of all evil shouldn't be an easy task. What's more, it's...

The fighter who got nuked--it was his idea. Out of game he was practically screaming NUKE ME I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR A TPK. Also, the cleric was spamming raidant powers and healing both, as much as he possibly could. See above. As far as I know, the wizard (of all people) was in a...

I didn't bother reducing the encounter because I thought they would use the terrain (such as the well) to their advantage. ONE guy (I think the thunderwave wizard) tried it ONCE. He hit three guys towards the well, but only managed to knock one in. He didn't bother after that, instead tyring to...

Making use of an obvious escape route is hardly "jumping through hoops." EDIT: Also, though I didn't reduce the encounter I did give my players a choice. At the onset of the battle (and twice later on when it started to get "hard") I asked them if they wanted me to bring in the missing PC. They...

45 hit point skeletons are hardly minions. They did manage to Push one skeleton down the well (who was later destroyed when a heavily armored cleric landed atop of him).

Forked from: What would you have done? You might remember my Battle of Oozes game that I spoke about in another thread. Well, I had a similar battle where I was hosting as a GM. I pitted five 2nd-level characters against 8 Skeleon Warriors and 2 Wraiths. The encounter was originally set up...

If the rules for Brutal don't specifically call it out, then Blargny is correct.