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<blockquote data-quote="Bill Zebub" data-source="post: 8690812" data-attributes="member: 7031982">&quot;Against all odds we won.&quot;With low turnout we started a new (side) D&amp;D campaign and rolled three new 1st level characters.&nbsp; It was a Strahd-themed campaign the DM was excited for, and our first objective was to help a town with werewolf attacks.&nbsp; I assumed it would be something scaled for 1st level characters, and was a little surprised to find ourselves in a fight against 3 un-nerfed werewolves.&nbsp; I assumed the DM meant to kill us...and I trusted her that this was all in the name of fun...but we put up the best fight we could.&nbsp; And, incredibly, we won.&nbsp; The barbarian went down pretty quickly, but a healing word got him back up.&nbsp; The tabaxi death cleric (!?!?!) had started the fight in a tree, and after the werewolves saved against all my 1st level slots I misty stepped (vhuman, fey-touched) into another tree, and the fight settled into the barbarian dodging every single round while we spammed cantrips from 30' up.&nbsp; One werewolf did manage to climb the tree with the tabaxi...despite my raven familiar's repeated but rather feeble and quixotic attempts to Shove him out...but then rolled horribly, and even with two attacks per turn the two werewolves on the ground managed to miss the dodging barbarian (who had 1 HP this whole time) with literally every single attack.&nbsp; My mind sliver cantrips reduced saving throws against the tabaxi's toll the dead, and eventually we dropped one werewolf, then another.&nbsp; The third one fled.Afterward the DM said she had meant to kill us (and had a great plan for what was going to happen next) but the dice do what the dice do.It was epic.&nbsp; Deep into 2nd level after 1 fight.Both the barbarian and the cleric now have lycanthropy, though.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bill Zebub, post: 8690812, member: 7031982"] "Against all odds we won." With low turnout we started a new (side) D&D campaign and rolled three new 1st level characters. It was a Strahd-themed campaign the DM was excited for, and our first objective was to help a town with werewolf attacks. I assumed it would be something scaled for 1st level characters, and was a little surprised to find ourselves in a fight against 3 un-nerfed werewolves. I assumed the DM meant to kill us...and I trusted her that this was all in the name of fun...but we put up the best fight we could. And, incredibly, we won. The barbarian went down pretty quickly, but a [I]healing word[/I] got him back up. The tabaxi death cleric (!?!?!) had started the fight in a tree, and after the werewolves saved against all my 1st level slots I [I]misty stepped[/I] (vhuman, fey-touched) into another tree, and the fight settled into the barbarian dodging every single round while we spammed cantrips from 30' up. One werewolf did manage to climb the tree with the tabaxi...despite my raven familiar's repeated but rather feeble and quixotic attempts to Shove him out...but then rolled horribly, and even with two attacks per turn the two werewolves on the ground managed to miss the dodging barbarian (who had 1 HP this whole time) with literally every single attack. My [I]mind sliver[/I] cantrips reduced saving throws against the tabaxi's [I]toll the dead[/I], and eventually we dropped one werewolf, then another. The third one fled. Afterward the DM said she had meant to kill us (and had a great plan for what was going to happen next) but the dice do what the dice do. It was epic. Deep into 2nd level after 1 fight. Both the barbarian and the cleric now have [I]lycanthropy[/I], though. [/QUOTE]

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