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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8390011" data-attributes="member: 82106">Sounds like a possible outcome yes. I don't think you'd need more than 10 or 12 attacks per PC/round to achieve that, would you? I mean, level 7 PCs should have AC around 18-22 IME, and around 50-70 hit points. If 12 guys attack you, and 4 hit, and each do 8 damage, you won't last about 3 rounds, right? Obviously the PCs in your example used horrible tactics! So, they kinda got their just desserts basically...Now, what if the wizard cast a Wall spell instead of some sort of lightning? What if the cleric used some higher level spell too? I think they could limit the number of attackers that the fighter was exposed to enough to allow him to hold his own, unless the terrain is simply some vast featureless flat space.... If it is, then the PCs should have run before they even got close to the enemy and maybe started picking them off somehow, until they arrived at a good defensive spot.I seem to recall one time when a 5e party I was in got attacked by an ENDLESS stream of undead, and we holed up in a vault or something where my fighter could hold the door, and the cleric just kept all the undead except one or two at bay every round. I had to kill something like 100 of the blasted things, but with the support of the other PCs we were able to hold that door until some other thing happened and we got out (I forget the details it was years ago).</blockquote>