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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zuche" data-source="post: 6028134" data-attributes="member: 6682151">Well done. I've yet to have a team even reach the wizard. Today's group of four was closer than anyone's been when we had to close up, but they've still got problems in front of them and behind. They also survived a ridiculous string of bad luck, failing three separate attempts to neutralize the apprentice's mobility advantage before they finally managed to grab it and shove her out a window. It turned worse when several brutes kept rolling 18s through 20s on their attacks against an isolated battlerager, who only kept going by virtue of being a revenant with +7 on death saves. Luck was bad and good for the artificer who kept getting knocked below 0 hp by the black pudding, finding some means to recover, and then got knocked down again four rounds in a row before it finally died and she rolled 20 on her death save. (She had to latch onto the vampire's regeneration twice with Coat Tail rider.) All are bloodied and half of them are in single digit hp right now with no way to regain, so death is all but assured. The Thursday night group was doing fairly well, right up until the owlbear stunned three out of four of them and then proceeded to double crit their defender and finish him off with an action point. Two more went down before that round ended and the controller conceded at that point, outnumbered three to one with no reliable way to contain all three.After this session, I've concluded that the only way to make things fair for a group of four is by assigning a 1 to the roll for random placement of dungeon monsters, while the only way to make it challenging for a group of six is to default straight to Nightmare Mode. Woodsmoke the Owlbear can be just too much of a game changer for four.</blockquote>

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