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<blockquote data-quote="Lancelot" data-source="post: 7067087" data-attributes="member: 30022"><p>Our first death occurred due to the first attack in the first round of the first combat of our experience with 5e.</p><p></p><p>My five players had rolled up a mix of characters, and we were kicking off with the module <em>Murder in Baldur's Gate</em>. In the first encounter, they were attempting to stop some pickpockets working a crowd. There were two 1st level enemy rogues; 7 HP each, 12 Dex, armed only with daggers for a mighty 1d4+1 piercing damage, plus potential 1d6 sneak attack. Pretty easy for a party of five fully-geared characters, yeah?</p><p></p><p>The party spotted the thieves at work, demanded they surrender immediately, and rolled for initiative. The PC rogue was the first to act. He ran up to the nearest pickpocket and grappled him. The two NPC pickpockets were next in initiative order. The ungrappled pickpocket stepped up to the PC rogue and tried to stab him, hopefully giving his buddy the chance to break free and run for it. I rolled a natural 20 with my first enemy combat roll for 5e; 2d4+1 from the dagger, and 2d6 from the sneak due to adjacent ally. Two 3's on the d4's, and a 5 and a 6 on the 2d6. The PC rogue took 18 damage, which took him to negative maximum HP in a single shot. Dead PC; first attack roll of first round of first combat. And my players had just come out of five years of 4e. There were some white faces at the table. And then we had a good laugh about it, and Paul rolled up another character.</p><p></p><p>...138 permanent character losses later (no joke; we keep records), we're still enjoying it.</p><p></p><p>As for Princes of the Apocalypse, our first losses in that module came in the Earth Cult Monastery. Orogs, man. They are tough nuts to crack at low level. Formidable AC, good damage. They accounted for an elven cleric and a gnome wizard. In general, the earth cult did most of the damage in that campaign. 9-of-12 permanent losses were thanks to the earth cult, and 4 of those were in a TPK against Ogremoch himself. Fun!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lancelot, post: 7067087, member: 30022"] Our first death occurred due to the first attack in the first round of the first combat of our experience with 5e. My five players had rolled up a mix of characters, and we were kicking off with the module [I]Murder in Baldur's Gate[/I]. In the first encounter, they were attempting to stop some pickpockets working a crowd. There were two 1st level enemy rogues; 7 HP each, 12 Dex, armed only with daggers for a mighty 1d4+1 piercing damage, plus potential 1d6 sneak attack. Pretty easy for a party of five fully-geared characters, yeah? The party spotted the thieves at work, demanded they surrender immediately, and rolled for initiative. The PC rogue was the first to act. He ran up to the nearest pickpocket and grappled him. The two NPC pickpockets were next in initiative order. The ungrappled pickpocket stepped up to the PC rogue and tried to stab him, hopefully giving his buddy the chance to break free and run for it. I rolled a natural 20 with my first enemy combat roll for 5e; 2d4+1 from the dagger, and 2d6 from the sneak due to adjacent ally. Two 3's on the d4's, and a 5 and a 6 on the 2d6. The PC rogue took 18 damage, which took him to negative maximum HP in a single shot. Dead PC; first attack roll of first round of first combat. And my players had just come out of five years of 4e. There were some white faces at the table. And then we had a good laugh about it, and Paul rolled up another character. ...138 permanent character losses later (no joke; we keep records), we're still enjoying it. As for Princes of the Apocalypse, our first losses in that module came in the Earth Cult Monastery. Orogs, man. They are tough nuts to crack at low level. Formidable AC, good damage. They accounted for an elven cleric and a gnome wizard. In general, the earth cult did most of the damage in that campaign. 9-of-12 permanent losses were thanks to the earth cult, and 4 of those were in a TPK against Ogremoch himself. Fun! [/QUOTE]
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