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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ave Rage" data-source="post: 1019462" data-attributes="member: 5483">So tonight was the first night with everyone there.  To recap, our group was:Lv.2 Fighter, Barb, WizardLv.1 Cleric, RogueI put them up against a group consisting of:Lv.3 ClericLv.2 Fighterx2Lv.1 Sorc (truestrike with cross bow) and rogue.This NPC team wasn't ubered up.  The only edge they had was the fact that the cleric was Lv.3 -and- evil so he couldnt insta-heal the group up.They were on a ledge with no way to run (just so they actually fought as this group is geared to fight).  The fighter runs up to meet my NPC group.  The Sorc and rogue pepper him with bullets taking 11 hp away from his 26 total hp.  The barb decides to hide behind  a tree so she can't get shot at <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> . The wizard tries to take a few pot shots with his bow but fails that.  The NPC fighters rush up to meet the fighter while the barb finally gets it in her head to bring her great axe into the equation.  The PC cleric joins the barb but takes a fierce hit (7hp) from one of the fighters.  The NPC fighter gets hurt by the PC fighter who returns the favor.  Since the PC fighter is still the only one in view, he gets hit with more arrows.  The NPC fighter drops the PC fighter to -3 hp.  The Barb lands a solid blow splitting one of the NPC fighters in half (2 hits or one good one would take either NPC fighter out).  The PC cleric slapped a heal on the PC fighter but only healed 2 pts instead of the 3 needed to bring him up.  Then he takes an arrow to the face and falls himself.  The Wizard moves up to cast a strength draining spell but the NPC fighter rolls a 20 to save. The wiz then gets slapped around and he falls as well.  Finally the lv.3 cleric (who was standing behind the lines all this time) walked up and cast "Cause Fear" on the Raged Barb which she promptly failed with a roll of 5.The PC rogue was then taken out with a cruel blow to the temple by the cleric.The map was basically a U with the party at the bottom and the NPC party at the top.  Two trees were placed around the middle with 'shrubs' indicating an area where only half movement was possible.  What was very clear to me in the begining was how the group, instead of rushing en mass trickled down the middle between the trees which the NPC party actually used to get out of the way of the wizard/rogue's bows.Instead of a everyone being dead I'm just going to have them be captured.  I'll go over it with them and introduce 'tactics' to them <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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