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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8710722" data-attributes="member: 93670">Next week I fully expect to kill one of my platers in the first round of continued combat, they forced my hand & left me no choice.  A party of 5 started with a medium encounter but refused to go inside & engage the caster+caster's allies & tried to juggle difficult terrain of their party members in a 5ft wide hallway so they could bottle up the one melee ally & prevent the caster+basically familiar from getting out into the hall it had no interest in getting into.  The first round of combat the warlock was complaining each round that they couldn't get up into range to shoot anything with everyone in the way.  The second round they dropped one of the allies & still decided to remain in the hallway expecting the monsters to come out so they could basically be kited.  Mind you the entire fight there is a door across the hall which the players know about and can see.  Round 3 the caster's remaining ally runs into the hall & opens the door to alert a second encounter.  The players continue to stick with the hallway ignoring the caster because the caster has a beast ally across the hall interacting with the players who think themselves bottlenecks.  Now it's round 4 I think & the caster is about to switch from missing with cantrips to fireball but the guy who fancies himself a frontliner (but is not) is down to pretty low heath & there are still caster's allyx2+caster.  Sure they could target someone other than the PC I expect to have about a 100% chance of being taken down by the fireball (even on a successful save)... except they can't because the entire party is out of LoS  to the side of the door in the hall.I repeatedly mentioned the warlock's earlier complaint about difficulties doing anything in the first few rounds of combat & repeatedly drew attention to the presence of a caster but this late tier2 group decided that they had plot armor if they used the hallway in a way that hamstrung their own caster while ignoring the caster to deal with mooks.Could the caster have opened with the fireball when everyone was at full health?  sure but why would they given the overwhelming odds & pointlessness of such an action when he could make his death mean something for his allies further in.  The next session begins with the caster's turn dollowed by his remaining allies</blockquote>

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