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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 1187470" data-attributes="member: 99">That part was not an issue.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  They were all down in under 2 rounds.  The battle only really took as long as it took me to make the attack and damage rolls for the Shambling Mounds.As for diaglo's questions:I don't want to reveal too much since some of them may read this thread (which is fine by me as things stand) but they were following a fairly predictable path toward their destination and moving at a steady pace.Yes.  The party was camped in the open.  They were moving in an area close to a large forest across a rolling plain dotted with scattered copses of trees.  Doubtlessly one of these copses would have made for better cover from the rain and their enemies.  But, at the time they made camp, they didn't know they had these enemies and more than half the PC's didn't care about the rain since they had the cover of the Rope Trick.The mountain lion is no stranger to sleeping out in the elements and there was no good cover from the rain to be had nearby in any case.  As I said before, better cover from the rain was probably available if they had sought it out but, with visibility being bad due to the storm, they would have been mostly wandering blind, hoping to stumble into a copse of trees.  For his part, the party Druid wildshaped into a boar and "wallowed in the mud", unbothered by the situation and accepting that the storm was just "part of nature".  The barbarian decided to sleep outside in the rain for good roleplaying reasons (he doesn't fully trust the "civilized characters" yet, who also happened to be the ones sleeping in the Rope Trick).In short, those who slept outside had good reasons and those who slept in the Rope Trick had good reasons.  But the fact that nobody was on watch was still not a smart move and, I'd venture to guess, not a mistake that they'll soon repeat.The main thrust of my question is whether a certain amount of "fun" should be sacrificed for the sake of consistancy and consquences and whether the consistancy and consequences themselves are primary sources of "fun".</blockquote>

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