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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 6965558" data-attributes="member: 15700"><p>Yeah, it's one of the things I like most about 5e. BA has made lower level mobs relevant to higher level PCs. I <strong>love</strong> that.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Again, I think there is a major difference in game play here. You seem to play orcs as if they just sit around waiting to be attacked. And when they do, they fall apart. I have played 15th level PCs (by the end of RoT), and while they are really powerful, I think you're really overestimating them. To use your example, the minute a 15th level war cleric (just so happens my 15th level PC was a tempest cleric) walks in with spiritual guardians up, the orcs send Nurtured Ones of Yurtrus.</p><p></p><p>Boom! Boom! Boom! Explody diseased bits everywhere and next thing you know that cleric is poisoned and suffers disadvantage on all rolls. Not to mention the flat out straight damage taken. And then you figure the orcs would use their aggressive trait to move in and attack, and then their normal move to leave again. AT some point, the cleric is going to lose concentration, and won't last very long. A 15th level cleric is only going to have about 100 hit points.</p><p></p><p>That's just one example. Another is to have Red Fang orcs cast darkness (of which they are immune to) to wreck havoc in the combat area. another is that they WOULD attack the town, and use the villagers as tools against the PCs (hostages, force the PCs to abandon <em>their</em> plans because they have to rescue the townsfolk, etc). So yeah, I think a battalion of 300 orcs has a pretty good risk to a high level party, especially if you play them like orcs would behave, and not just bags of HPs that just sit there waiting to be killed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 6965558, member: 15700"] Yeah, it's one of the things I like most about 5e. BA has made lower level mobs relevant to higher level PCs. I [b]love[/b] that. Again, I think there is a major difference in game play here. You seem to play orcs as if they just sit around waiting to be attacked. And when they do, they fall apart. I have played 15th level PCs (by the end of RoT), and while they are really powerful, I think you're really overestimating them. To use your example, the minute a 15th level war cleric (just so happens my 15th level PC was a tempest cleric) walks in with spiritual guardians up, the orcs send Nurtured Ones of Yurtrus. Boom! Boom! Boom! Explody diseased bits everywhere and next thing you know that cleric is poisoned and suffers disadvantage on all rolls. Not to mention the flat out straight damage taken. And then you figure the orcs would use their aggressive trait to move in and attack, and then their normal move to leave again. AT some point, the cleric is going to lose concentration, and won't last very long. A 15th level cleric is only going to have about 100 hit points. That's just one example. Another is to have Red Fang orcs cast darkness (of which they are immune to) to wreck havoc in the combat area. another is that they WOULD attack the town, and use the villagers as tools against the PCs (hostages, force the PCs to abandon [i]their[/i] plans because they have to rescue the townsfolk, etc). So yeah, I think a battalion of 300 orcs has a pretty good risk to a high level party, especially if you play them like orcs would behave, and not just bags of HPs that just sit there waiting to be killed. [/QUOTE]
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