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<blockquote data-quote="kumagroo" data-source="post: 4826864" data-attributes="member: 83866">So, we just finished our first run and I think it was a lot of fun! The flavor, descriptions, and intrique make this excpetional! Still, combat wise, I'm going to have to severely bump up the opposition. I knew that two of my party members were optimizers so I decided to dump the dogs, scouts, and thugs on the PC's in one round where they'd be nice and bunched up and flanked. Didn't matter: The party's dwarf shaman drops a daily power with a burst 5 effect and annihilates 3 of the 4 black horse minions, 2 of the 3 dogs, and injures some others. From there, our twin striking bow ranger and battlerage vigor fighter tore up the enemy with a little help from the rogue and avenger. The ceiling traps were a minor annoyance to them that ended up killing the last dog and finishing off a bloodied black horse thug.&nbsp;Torrent, I decided from round one, got hit by a falling timber and was out. They didn't need her.&nbsp;I thought it would be wise to send Kathor off to live to fight a harder encounter. Action points, the shaman's spirit, more arrows and some such were directed at his horse (which I made a level 3 warhorse brute to help him get away) and the 58 hp beast was dropped in 1 round. After the 1st hit on Kathor, he got his Trillith true strike and rolled a 1. *sigh* The party didn't slaughter him, but he gave his word to stay away. One character came close to bloodied; no healing surges were used by anyone.&nbsp;They nearly obliterated Larion too before he could escape with his 40 remaining hp (and this is after the solon healed him). So, for future fights should I just:1) add extra badguys,2) or use the DMG rules to level up their enemies? In either case, I'll have to cheat down the experience values a bit and use the story-based system.&nbsp;Next game they're slated to fight the &quot;Fallen Devil&quot; and I've already decided that he can't be bloodied or they'll laugh over his corpse by the end of round 3 at the lastest.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kumagroo, post: 4826864, member: 83866"] So, we just finished our first run and I think it was a lot of fun! The flavor, descriptions, and intrique make this excpetional! Still, combat wise, I'm going to have to severely bump up the opposition. I knew that two of my party members were optimizers so I decided to dump the dogs, scouts, and thugs on the PC's in one round where they'd be nice and bunched up and flanked. Didn't matter: The party's dwarf shaman drops a daily power with a burst 5 effect and annihilates 3 of the 4 black horse minions, 2 of the 3 dogs, and injures some others. From there, our twin striking bow ranger and battlerage vigor fighter tore up the enemy with a little help from the rogue and avenger. The ceiling traps were a minor annoyance to them that ended up killing the last dog and finishing off a bloodied black horse thug. Torrent, I decided from round one, got hit by a falling timber and was out. They didn't need her. I thought it would be wise to send Kathor off to live to fight a harder encounter. Action points, the shaman's spirit, more arrows and some such were directed at his horse (which I made a level 3 warhorse brute to help him get away) and the 58 hp beast was dropped in 1 round. After the 1st hit on Kathor, he got his Trillith true strike and rolled a 1. *sigh* The party didn't slaughter him, but he gave his word to stay away. One character came close to bloodied; no healing surges were used by anyone. They nearly obliterated Larion too before he could escape with his 40 remaining hp (and this is after the solon healed him). So, for future fights should I just: 1) add extra badguys, 2) or use the DMG rules to level up their enemies? In either case, I'll have to cheat down the experience values a bit and use the story-based system. Next game they're slated to fight the "Fallen Devil" and I've already decided that he can't be bloodied or they'll laugh over his corpse by the end of round 3 at the lastest. [/QUOTE]

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