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<blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 6816804" data-attributes="member: 6788736"><p>You're not calculating that right.</p><p></p><p>8 X 20th level PCs have a 'deadly' XP budget of: <strong>101,600 XP</strong> This encounter would just slide into the 'easy' category for them.</p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></span>8 x 5th level PCs have a 'deadly' budget of <strong>8,800 XP</strong></p><p></p><p>20,000 XP is not off the chart deadly at all. It's definately deadly though. Double deadly in fact.</p><p></p><p>Im super weirded out by the encounter however. </p><p></p><p>The Yochol makes two attacks per round with 10' reach (at +6) dealing 7d6+2 damage a hit. It's resistant to non magic weapons (and a ton of other stuff) effectively giving it 260 hit points. It has advantage on saving throws vs spells. It casts <em>dominate person </em>(DC14) 1/day. </p><p></p><p>How on earth was it NOT killing 1 PC per turn?</p><p></p><p>Even if it gets surrounded (it can spider climb) it can cast <em>Web </em>(restraining the party) at will - which it is immune to, and then turn into gas form (where it is invulnerable to non magic attacks) and simply.. float away.</p><p></p><p>The two drow elite warriors have ACs of 21 with parry (assuming you didnt give them drow armor), 70 HP each, two attacks per round doing 4d6+4 damage. Thats after the volley of knockout dart crossbow bots (in darkness so probably at advantage) against the PCs.</p><p></p><p>The priestess is spamming a 20' radius (40' diameter) sphere dealing 4d10 damage per round (con save for half) while she melees for 2 attacks per round at +5 dealing 6d6 damage per hit. If they drop her concentration she can simply put it up again.</p><p></p><p>Just those 4 critters alone should have wiped the floor with 8 x 5th level PC's - they should have been dropping like flies!</p><p></p><p>We're talking about (just the 2 elites, the yochol and priestess) throwing down 8 attacks per round dealing an average of 6d6 damage per hit each, plus an AoE spell dealing 4d10 to a bunch of people.</p><p></p><p>Assuming just half those attacks hit, thats 2 PCs going down per round (before you factor in the <em>insect swarm</em>).</p><p></p><p>The preistess has mass cure wounds too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Flamestrike, post: 6816804, member: 6788736"] You're not calculating that right. 8 X 20th level PCs have a 'deadly' XP budget of: [B]101,600 XP[/B] This encounter would just slide into the 'easy' category for them. [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/COLOR]8 x 5th level PCs have a 'deadly' budget of [B]8,800 XP[/B] 20,000 XP is not off the chart deadly at all. It's definately deadly though. Double deadly in fact. Im super weirded out by the encounter however. The Yochol makes two attacks per round with 10' reach (at +6) dealing 7d6+2 damage a hit. It's resistant to non magic weapons (and a ton of other stuff) effectively giving it 260 hit points. It has advantage on saving throws vs spells. It casts [I]dominate person [/I](DC14) 1/day. How on earth was it NOT killing 1 PC per turn? Even if it gets surrounded (it can spider climb) it can cast [I]Web [/I](restraining the party) at will - which it is immune to, and then turn into gas form (where it is invulnerable to non magic attacks) and simply.. float away. The two drow elite warriors have ACs of 21 with parry (assuming you didnt give them drow armor), 70 HP each, two attacks per round doing 4d6+4 damage. Thats after the volley of knockout dart crossbow bots (in darkness so probably at advantage) against the PCs. The priestess is spamming a 20' radius (40' diameter) sphere dealing 4d10 damage per round (con save for half) while she melees for 2 attacks per round at +5 dealing 6d6 damage per hit. If they drop her concentration she can simply put it up again. Just those 4 critters alone should have wiped the floor with 8 x 5th level PC's - they should have been dropping like flies! We're talking about (just the 2 elites, the yochol and priestess) throwing down 8 attacks per round dealing an average of 6d6 damage per hit each, plus an AoE spell dealing 4d10 to a bunch of people. Assuming just half those attacks hit, thats 2 PCs going down per round (before you factor in the [I]insect swarm[/I]). The preistess has mass cure wounds too. [/QUOTE]
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