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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 6877139" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Well, the fight ended up a near-TPK; if the half-orc Ranger hadn't gotten a lucky death save crit (when already at 2 death save fails), everyone but the fleeing half-elf Druid would have died.The DM wasn't trying to be killer per se, as he told us after. Apparently, his other 5e group, which also started at level 1, has been consistently capable of punching WELL above their weight, while our group was struggling to deal with just 'hard' combats. So he saw no problem with throwing a fight somewhere between Hard and Deadly at us while we were attempting to take a short rest because of a previous fight. Fortunately, he was nice and gave me and the group in general a lot of lenience about reviving my character (the NPC cleric that had removed the mummy curses used Revivify, which was allowed to work because we'd been trying to cleanse the temple of her deity). The game petered out a few sessions later, I think in part because the DM didn't know how to properly challenge us.As for the mummy thing? I honestly don't know what he was thinking. Particularly since it was super bloody clear that he had had no plan in place for dealing with any successful mummy curses we might receive. Another guy and I had extrapolated estimates of the CR values for stuff he was throwing at us, and it was...not entirely consistent with our levels. Particularly when taking into account the fact that none of us had played 5e proper before, some hadn't played D&D in nearly a decade, and one had never played TTRPGs at all.</blockquote>

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