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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Saeviomagy" data-source="post: 496827" data-attributes="member: 5890">If you're doing speaker in dreams, and your archers haven't been crippled heavily in most encounters, your DM is doing a very, very poor job. Very. I wouldn't mind knowing which particular incident in this module your archer excelled in, because to my mind there are only two places in the entire module where that could happen.Presuming you've done the previous modules, I can't see how archers could excel in most of those either.Then your tanks are doing a really bad job at being tanks. It sounds like they're slow, low on hitpoints and ac, and useless at offense if your own comments are anything to go on. Your complete unwillingness to contemplate alternate tactics because 'it wouldn't suit the character' basically takes away your right to whine. If you can see the problem, you can damn well bet that the character, who's life is on the line, can see the problem too. And if he won't change, he should retire.Entirely agreed. People think of mages as the artillery. They're not - fighters pull off that job much more expertly. Wizards are the combat engineers.That's your own fault. I honestly cannot believe that you're that bad, unless you are taking pains to be that bad.A single round of running gets a character with a movement of 30ft 120ft closer to the enemy. Your characters (assuming full plate here) may be all the way down to 60ft a round running, and 40ft a round charging, especially since none of you are dwarves (never make a dwarf melee combatant... they're just far too slow). As a barbarian, I would expect you could put together a respectable 160ft run, and an 80ft charge.Encounters in a light forest start at 105 feet, and at that distance, any ranged targets should have at least 30% concealment, as well as some cover (assuming they don't deliberately take cover). Your charge connects on the second round, assuming you still have LOS to the targets, and the targets made no attempt to close with you.That's a light forest. Barring an open plain, that's the worst possible scenario for an unmounted melee combatant, and you're still attacking in the second round. Most monsters will out-do that.</blockquote>

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