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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3656658" data-attributes="member: 19675">I went through this thing...and had a blast!Kluge had been rolling hot all day- first in Bento's True20 game in the morning, and later in this thing.One major factor was also a result of statistically odd die rolls- the party members with the least HP were the ones who were getting hit hardest and the most often.&nbsp; The only spell that even slowed down my PC was the web.My PC waded into combat to take on the dragon that had our mage and still only took 30HP of damage (the acid resistance helped, but she had evasion anyway- other BW blasts before the acid resistance spell did nothing to slow her down).The guy playing the straight Knight- one of the owners of Generation X games (and thus our Host)- spent most of the dragon fight chasing the beasties.&nbsp; They wouldn't sit still and &quot;fight like men,&quot; much to his chagrin.As far as the challenge of the final encounter goes, I'd have to say that it was balanced against a smallish party run by players in a one-shot.&nbsp; Players who have run their PCs for months wouldn't make some of the tactical mistakes I know we did.&nbsp; All other events being unchanged, my forgetting to use my PC's abilities to their fullest actually cost us an outright victory and indirectly caused the death of the Ftr/Mage...My forgotten damage bonuses to my last successful attack were exactly equal to the amount of HP the dragon had after the Ftr/Mage hit him with a spell and when he subsequently critted the Ftr/Mage. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> Players who have been playing the same PCs for months probably wouldn't make mistakes like that.OTOH, they'd have to go through the whole cave...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 3656658, member: 19675"] I went through this thing...and had a blast! Kluge had been rolling hot all day- first in Bento's True20 game in the morning, and later in this thing. One major factor was also a result of statistically odd die rolls- the party members with the least HP were the ones who were getting hit hardest and the most often. The only spell that even slowed down my PC was the web. My PC waded into combat to take on the dragon that had our mage and still only took 30HP of damage (the acid resistance helped, but she had evasion anyway- other BW blasts before the acid resistance spell did nothing to slow her down). The guy playing the straight Knight- one of the owners of Generation X games (and thus our Host)- spent most of the dragon fight chasing the beasties. They wouldn't sit still and "fight like men," much to his chagrin. As far as the challenge of the final encounter goes, I'd have to say that it was balanced against a smallish party run by players in a one-shot. Players who have run their PCs for months wouldn't make some of the tactical mistakes I know we did. All other events being unchanged, my forgetting to use my PC's abilities to their fullest actually cost us an outright victory and indirectly caused the death of the Ftr/Mage...My forgotten damage bonuses to my last successful attack were exactly equal to the amount of HP the dragon had after the Ftr/Mage hit him with a spell and when he subsequently critted the Ftr/Mage. :( Players who have been playing the same PCs for months probably wouldn't make mistakes like that. OTOH, they'd have to go through the whole cave... [/QUOTE]

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