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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ForceUser" data-source="post: 2740360" data-attributes="member: 2785">Yeah...okay. Now that I've given you guys the bare bones of the situation, and since you're asking, I'll flesh it out.First off, I screwed up using the ritiik in two ways (sorry, guys!) One, I thought that they were reach weapons, like longspears, so the ogres had a 15' reach. Oops. Two, I forgot that once the wielder of the ritiik failed the trip attempt, he had to drop the weapon or risk being tripped himself. This came up once. Double oops. In compensation, I gave the group bonus XP for the encounter. Second, I knew it was going to be a tougher-than-normal encounter for them for three reasons--nobody in the party specializes in ranged weapons, arcane casters had to make DC 15 + spell level Concentration checks to cast spells while in the locale, and the spellwarped ogres had spell resistance. Also, the party had just lost one of its two melee characters in a previous fight with some, er, spellwarped polar bears (the spellwarped penguin swarm didn't get anyone, sigh).At the time of the encounter, the party composition was this.aelfborn* bard 7human abjurer 3/cleric 3/mystic theurge 1human barbarian 4/variant ranger 3 human cleric 7human rogue 3/wizard 4*Homebrew half-elf variant.So--technically only one front-ranker, the barbarian/ranger. No archers. No big nukers. The encounter with three CR 4 spellwarped ogres armed with longspear-like ritiiks didn't exactly play to their strengths. Luckily for them, the bard pulled off a glitterdust spell that blinded two of the creatures fairly early in the fight. Even so, the barbarian and cleric both got tooled by the viscious cycle of AoO/trip-attack-AoO.I thought it was going to be a fun encounter, but most of the players seemed pretty frustrated. Not, they claimed, with me, but with the ogres' weapons. I dunno, maybe they are whining a bit.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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