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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 6395430" data-attributes="member: 15700">I mentioned this the other day, and I think it bears repeating.  HotDQ is the first big adventure for the Adventure's League for the brand new 5th edition.  It makes perfect sense to include elements that highlight aspects of 5e that aren't in previous editions.  These include:* showing players how death saves work (the battle with Cyan)* showing players that big bad monsters can now be successfully attacked by low level mobs, AKA bounded accuracy (the dragon encounter).I don't think the designers of HotDQ were being dicks or being obtuse or oblivious when they wrote this adventure.  I think these encounters were intentional.  Bounded accuracy is one of the big selling points of 5e, and to show that yes, level 1 PCs can in fact do damage to a dragon is a huge change from previous editions.In both of these scenarios, they were written not to kill new PCs.  Only in the very small % of times with horrible luck and tiny odds would that happen in eitehr case.  Heck, the PCs aren't even forced to engage in either encounter if they don't want.</blockquote>