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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charles Rampant" data-source="post: 6357465" data-attributes="member: 32659">[Spoilers for Starter Set]A couple of weeks back, my group for the Starter Set was down two players (the wizard and the rogue). The remaining players had definitely found the last encounter of the Redcloak hideout (three Bugbears) to be really tough without any crowd control, but were happily pottering around near Conyberry. Then they went to Wyvern's Tor and saw seven Orcs and an Ogre. They did a really good job of working together: the Halfling Fighter used Dodge to tank the Orc's attacks, while the Fighter Archer and the Cleric cut down the numbers from afar. But then the players' dice just wouldn't kill the last Orc, who proceeded to roll a string of criticals and killed all three PCs. Whoops.We all sort of stood around and looked at each other, and then agreed that we'd just revert to the start of the combat once we arranged a game where the wizard and rogue players could attend. So I think that saying, "Oh, actually that doesn't happen..." isn't a terrible thing to do, since TPKs are not much fun for anyone, and they do kind of mess up the campaign something fierce.</blockquote>