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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6482650" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Hmmm. I find it interesting that the monsters you name were able to do so much damage to the party. How sophisticated were their tactics? Was the drow fighter, for example, using his extended-range darkvision to gain advantage to attack enemy creatures? (From 60' to 120' range, he can see them and most of them can't see him, since 60' darkvision is the usual standard.) When two fighters got frightened by the dragon, was everyone able to fall back effectively until the fear wore off (thus nullifying it)? What kind of countermeasures were employed when the drow wizard started hitting them with Cloudkill/Lightning Bolts? Was there any attempt to either Counterspell or fall back out of range?From the description, I'm pretty sure I could take the exact same characters that went through your adventure and shred the opposition by doing nothing more than swapping up the wizard's prepared spells a little.The lesson I'm learning about 5E is that tactical skill on the part of the PCs/players is a massive force multiplier. "Optimization" is now a game-time activity, not a chargen-time activity. I think that's pretty cool, but I point this out only because you may in time have to massively increase the difficulty of encounters as your players gain more skill.</blockquote>