Are encounters too easy?

[Neonchameleon]

I added in an extra 26 or so minions there BTW, plus an extra orc archer on the wall.

There's a reason J and I both go into your campaigns making sure we have a handful of multi-target or area atacks (Armour of Agathys in Saeryth's case - it's enough when 1 fight/day is common). For what it's worth, the reason I went for Charisma-based Infernal Pact rather than Dark Pact is that Cursebite (Close Burst 20, affects cursed enemies) just felt cheesy with the way you handle monsters although I'd happily use it in other campaigns. The Promises to the Daughter feat I'm using on the other hand can be handled with firebreaks betwen the minions. Of course that makes it harder for you to dogpile the fighters at the centre, but they go down anyway.

 

[S'mon]

There's a reason J and I both go into your campaigns making sure we have a handful of multi-target or area atacks (Armour of Agathys in Saeryth's case - it's enough when 1 fight/day is common). For what it's worth, the reason I went for Charisma-based Infernal Pact rather than Dark Pact is that Cursebite (Close Burst 20, affects cursed enemies) just felt cheesy with the way you handle monsters although I'd happily use it in other campaigns. The Promises to the Daughter feat I'm using on the other hand can be handled with firebreaks betwen the minions. Of course that makes it harder for you to dogpile the fighters at the centre, but they go down anyway.

I toned down the number of orcs encountered considerably from the actual Wilderlands of High Fantasy listing for Sarn's Tower, BTW - AIR it was 50 orc Warriors (War-3 in 3e), plus maybe 120 or so orc commoners (Drudges in 4e) -you only faced AIR 53 orcs, 29 of them drudges. I did add in a Warforged though.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

How did you explain the warforged?

 

[S'mon]

How did you explain the warforged?

A PC Warforged (Bulwark) was hunting his old warforged enemy, and tracked him down to the tower. Azm Zealot the enemy Warforged had joined up with the orcs to wage his eternal war against the descendants of the enemies he was created to fight 7 millenia previously.