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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jbear" data-source="post: 5291787" data-attributes="member: 75065">Yes.I've been a DM for years. Just a few months ago I got into two different online games as a player for the first time since I was 14.On the second session of the Wednesday night game only 3 of us showed up. After getting down a trapped hallway and nearly falling into a pit we walked into the 'lounge' of the wife of the goblin we had massacred in the first session. And from the nearby bedroom emerged her 6 angry sons. So, hell yes, we turned and ran like rabbits! I slammed the door shut behind us and bravely (unwisely) tried to hold it while my more vulnerable companions fled back over the pit. Only I rolled a 2 on my Strength test and the door burst open and I was thrown to the floor. I was sure we were goners but I managed to make it back over that pit to join the wizard and the cleric before i was hacked to pieces ... and suddenly the battle turned and we had an awesome defensive position. In the end, after they ran out of javelins, we kicked their goblin butts one after the other down that pit and rained magic on them! Beautiful!SPOILER ALERT* If you plan to play D&D Dark Sun Encounters from week 1 then don't read any further!The first session of the Sunday night game my group also fled. On this occaision there were 6 of us. After repelling the first wave of attackers huddled beneath an awning in the middle of an obsidian shard storm in the middle of the harsh desert we already had on PC dying and every single other PC bloodied badly. We could see the next wave of attackers arriving... and a third wave behind them... so yeah the dying elf was stabilised and hauled over my shoulder (yep, I'm a fighter in both games) and we ran for our lives. This was the first encounter of the D&D Dark SUn Encounters. I imagine the encounter itself was designed to force you to flee, because it was far far too viscious to have been able to survive even a second wave of attackers. Actually every encounter has been savagely viscious. 2 of the PCs were killed in the 4th Encounter, and I'm sure the DM could have slaughtered all of us if he had wanted to. I get the feeling that in Athas you have to turn tail and run ALOT!</blockquote>

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