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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Holy Bovine" data-source="post: 14715" data-attributes="member: 203">Ok I really want to know what this module is - I haven't a clue and the suspense is killing me <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As far as what happened to your party and EL12 encounter vs. an EL 7 (roughly) party should easily have a 50/50 chance for a total party kill.  Strangely enough it looks like you guys got off easy with only one party death.And everyone else is right - only partial actions allowed in the surprise round.All in all a very difficult encounter but not impossible - your AC could use some improvement (and everyone's suggestions for Expertise, spell buffing and some tougher armour are very good) but I have found that armour really doesn't keep up with a creatures ability to hit you (at least with their full BAB)./  the trick is to get your AC high enough that the second, third etc. attacks miss.  Every fighter should be able to suck up a single hit a round (especially if he's dishing out 2 of his own).</blockquote>