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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silvenger" data-source="post: 6389126" data-attributes="member: 6777894">Howdy, friends!Eventually, my group managed to meet and test the fifth edition. We've been waiting all summer long for this moment. We already have an unfinished 4E campaign, so we converted our PC's in order to follow the storyline. We just have no patience to end our current campaign and then jump to the fifth. However we don't want to change editions in the middle of a narrow dungeon passage, like animals. Instead, we want to get to a milestone and then jump to the fifth.[SPOILERS OF HOTDQ AHEAD]So, while we get there, we decided to test the converted PC's in random encounters with some powerful enemy from the Hoard of the Dragon Queen adventure, for example, Blagothkus, the mighty cloud giant. Blagothkus is challenge 9 and my group is level 10, but hey, it's just a test, and we compensated the lack of level with three Ambush Drakes.Then something weird happened.We rolled for initiative. Ariadna, the druid of our party was the first.-I cast polymorph- She said.Ariadna's spell save DC is 17 (8+ Proficiency bonus 4 + Wisdom modifier 5 = 17)Blagothkus' saving throw for wisdom is +6So, Blagothkus has to roll 11 or more to success, otherwise he would be polymorphized in, let's say a trout. End of the combat. Final boss defeated in one turn.So the point is, are we missing something? In our opinion it is not fair to defeat such an important enemy with just a spell which can be cast at level 7 that has 50% of success. I go further, Ariadna can expend two more spell slots and cast polymorph again twice in order to maximize the chances of success. We are almost sure that we were doing something wrong, but what?I hope you don't get too bored with such a long story. Any idea?And thanks for reading!Filraën Fauvir.Eldritch knight from the Mighty Aarakocra Party.</blockquote>

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