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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8244520" data-attributes="member: 5948">In preparation for our upcoming attempt to steal a teleportation key from the hill giant stronghold at Grudd Haug (in Storm King's Thunder), we ambushed a hill giant patrol.&nbsp; The idea is to draw forces out from Grudd Haug itself, so there's less to oppose us when we do get there.Well, despite having an&nbsp; NPC on our side who's considerably more powerful than any of the PCs (and who is of questionable trustworthiness, given the whole 'being a vampire' thing an all...), we had a really tough time and it was a quite close-run thing, our dice rolls were awful, we didn't expect the oni who counterspelled our opening fireball gambit, and some of the variant ogres that the hill giants had conscripted had some brutal special actions.&nbsp; The cleric went down to 0hp and a couple of other PCs were one hit from going down too.&nbsp; &nbsp; We spent almost all of our daily resources on knocking out a single patrol of one hill giant, a couple of ogres, an oni, and a smattering of hobgoblins, and we got beaten to hell in the process and only really got saved by the presence of an overpowered NPC who might actually be a bad guy.&nbsp; Lesson #1 learned (or re-learned) was to concentrate attacks rather than spread them around, but jeez, we're rethinking whether taking on Grudd Haug is going to be a smart idea, even if we're probably going to have a fair few more allies by that time...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8244520, member: 5948"] In preparation for our upcoming attempt to steal a teleportation key from the hill giant stronghold at Grudd Haug (in Storm King's Thunder), we ambushed a hill giant patrol. The idea is to draw forces out from Grudd Haug itself, so there's less to oppose us when we do get there. Well, despite having an NPC on our side who's considerably more powerful than any of the PCs (and who is of questionable trustworthiness, given the whole 'being a vampire' thing an all...), we had a really tough time and it was a quite close-run thing, our dice rolls were awful, we didn't expect the oni who counterspelled our opening fireball gambit, and some of the variant ogres that the hill giants had conscripted had some brutal special actions. The cleric went down to 0hp and a couple of other PCs were one hit from going down too. We spent almost all of our daily resources on knocking out a single patrol of one hill giant, a couple of ogres, an oni, and a smattering of hobgoblins, and we got beaten to hell in the process and only really got saved by the presence of an overpowered NPC who might actually be a bad guy. Lesson #1 learned (or re-learned) was to concentrate attacks rather than spread them around, but jeez, we're rethinking whether taking on Grudd Haug is going to be a smart idea, even if we're probably going to have a fair few more allies by that time... [/QUOTE]

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