Sorry for the drop-off in the updates. I'm getting married in two weeks (yay!) and I have been consequently unusually busy lately. I'll be back on top of this soon!
-blarg
Hey, I just saw this- congratulations!
I had my first bit of gaming in months last weekend and it was a blast. The first encounter (which I didn't track the stats on at all) involved the pcs assaulting a ziggurat with yuan-ti snaketongue disciples and a pair of snaketongue warriors- but towards the end, the party attacked into the next room without resting, thus doubling down on their encounter.
The second encounter- the one I did track- they combined
three encounters into one.
Start Time: Approx. 11 pm
End Time: Approx. 2 am
Combat Length: Approx. 3 hours
PC Roster:
1 Controller: Wizard (lvl 8)
1 Leader: Cleric (lvl 8)
1 Defender: Warden (lvl 7)
2 Strikers: Rogue (lvl 8) and Barbarian (lvl 7)
1 npc: Bradford, lvl 4 skirmisher (henchman; custom npc they picked up as a minion long ago who has survived through thick and thin and is continuing to kick ass and take names)
Monster Roster:
1 crushgrip constictor (lvl 9 soldier)
2 flame snakes (lvl 9 artillery)
3 water moccasins (lvl 8 minion controllers)
1 snaketongue warrior (lvl 8 brute)
4 snaketongue initiates (lvl 7 minions)
1 yuan-ti malison acolyte of Zehir (lvl 9 elite controller)
2 cockatrices (lvl 5 skirmishers)
Survik, yuan-ti archaeologist (lvl 9 elite skirmisher)
Survik is completely custom. I had given him a number of cool whip attacks; when the pcs encountered him, in a seizure of inspiration I totally played him up as an Indiana Jones type (even gave him a fedora!).
As usual, I did a piss-poor job of tracking stuff. Here's my closest guess as to- everything. Note that this time, at least for a while, I was the slow one this session since I had so many different groups of bad guys to track (they were all coming from different rooms and converging on the fight at different times). Also, there were a lot of desperate discussions as the barbarian ended up trapped in a room full of bad guys that the pcs couldn't really enter (the way in was blocked by cockatrices!), at single-digit hit points and taking ongoing 10 poison damage. It was a very, very tense fight, very close almost from the beginning, full of some tactical genius and amazingly good- and bad- rolls.
Approx. Number of Rounds: 11?
Total Monster HPs: 863 (includes 7 minions)
Action Points Used by PCs: 5
Action Points Used by Monsters: 2
Crits: Approx. 7
PC Dailies Used: Approx. 6
Healing Surges Used: 4*
*Note: In all fairness, there were a lot of non-surge based healing and temporary hit point effects going around too, though. So don't be fooled by this number!