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<blockquote data-quote="Jon_Dahl" data-source="post: 5956098" data-attributes="member: 89822">Two sessions, two deaths.First I had a carefully tailored encountered with goblins that were riding cougars (using leopard's stats). One of the PCs was a gnome druid so facing racial enemies and animals were right up his alley.The fight was hard but successful and as the cougar-riders were driven off I felt happy for my players. Then the druid really surprised me:&quot;I turn into a cheetah and run 500 ft. in one round&quot;.I was baffled but with this unusual running feat he was able to catch the goblins. His companions were too slow to save his life because the cougars could easily overwhelm and kill him with some lucky shots. But really... That cheetah running trick surprised me. 500 ft. is quite a distance in this game. He was completely cut off from his melee-tank friends.The second death was the paladin. The group found an arrogant and lethal stone giant who wore a half-plate. He was enjoying the sun (he had the Endurance feat) and his greatsword rested beside him. The party was very close to him and he hadn't notice them.Unfortunately their surprise didn't go as I had planned it and he was actually allowed to stand up and arm himself without any AoOs. It was easy for the giant to slay the paladin but after that he was killed. The encounter was intentionally hard because the group had a huge advantage in the beginning of the fight. I guess it didn't work out too well because he was barely threatened at all during the surpise round and subsequent round.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jon_Dahl, post: 5956098, member: 89822"] Two sessions, two deaths. First I had a carefully tailored encountered with goblins that were riding cougars (using leopard's stats). One of the PCs was a gnome druid so facing racial enemies and animals were right up his alley. The fight was hard but successful and as the cougar-riders were driven off I felt happy for my players. Then the druid really surprised me: "I turn into a cheetah and run 500 ft. in one round". I was baffled but with this unusual running feat he was able to catch the goblins. His companions were too slow to save his life because the cougars could easily overwhelm and kill him with some lucky shots. But really... That cheetah running trick surprised me. 500 ft. is quite a distance in this game. He was completely cut off from his melee-tank friends. The second death was the paladin. The group found an arrogant and lethal stone giant who wore a half-plate. He was enjoying the sun (he had the Endurance feat) and his greatsword rested beside him. The party was very close to him and he hadn't notice them. Unfortunately their surprise didn't go as I had planned it and he was actually allowed to stand up and arm himself without any AoOs. It was easy for the giant to slay the paladin but after that he was killed. The encounter was intentionally hard because the group had a huge advantage in the beginning of the fight. I guess it didn't work out too well because he was barely threatened at all during the surpise round and subsequent round. [/QUOTE]

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