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<blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 8113600" data-attributes="member: 5834">Age of Ashes is tougher than Extinction Curse. It seems because it was designed early, the encounter balance system was a little off. They have some real out of whack encounters. If we didn't have a Champion and a Cleric, I think the early modules would have killed us. Both of those classes are real game changers for party survival if played well. We had to use a lot of healing power through the first two modules. It gets easier as you gain levels as it seems encounter building seemed more sensible later on and the characters became more powerful.Stick it out. The third module is when life becomes easier. The first two modules have some really nightmare encounter areas. The third one is a lot of reasonable except for one really dangerous encounter, which I think will see you back posting another TPK. There is one TPK encounter in the 3rd module that killed one member of our six man, one animal companion, and almost killed another two. That encounter was vicious. Fourth module was the easiest so so far. Fifth is even easier. Be real careful on this one encounter late in the module in the 3rd book. It's a real nightmare.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celtavian, post: 8113600, member: 5834"] Age of Ashes is tougher than Extinction Curse. It seems because it was designed early, the encounter balance system was a little off. They have some real out of whack encounters. If we didn't have a Champion and a Cleric, I think the early modules would have killed us. Both of those classes are real game changers for party survival if played well. We had to use a lot of healing power through the first two modules. It gets easier as you gain levels as it seems encounter building seemed more sensible later on and the characters became more powerful. Stick it out. The third module is when life becomes easier. The first two modules have some really nightmare encounter areas. The third one is a lot of reasonable except for one really dangerous encounter, which I think will see you back posting another TPK. There is one TPK encounter in the 3rd module that killed one member of our six man, one animal companion, and almost killed another two. That encounter was vicious. Fourth module was the easiest so so far. Fifth is even easier. Be real careful on this one encounter late in the module in the 3rd book. It's a real nightmare. [/QUOTE]

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