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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6597617" data-attributes="member: 5834">That's what it did result in with the back line getting burned. The DM chose to play the gnolls afraid of getting burned after their initial archer foray caused quite a few to get burned. They backed up waiting for their gnoll leader to kill them. Didn't seem out of character for a gnoll. We had the sons and the single gnoll shifting back and forth to avoid the burning in the ten foot space. At this point the fight is over. I reran it using your tactics. The gnolls did break into the room. As I stated, the only real threat were the pack lords and the Fang. The regular gnolls had little chance of defeating the warlock/fighter with armor mastery.Unless you truly believe that a pack of gnolls would run into a room of five people and all twenty three attack the warlock/fighter backing in and out on him ignoring everyone else, we still win. The cleric is no slouch in the AC and hit point department. The wizard I believe had 16 AC. The fighter had 16 as well. With +3 and +4 to hit for the gnolls, the spread attacks worked out in our favor.I will give you this. The grappling tactic did allow the gnolls to enter the room. After going over the fight again, it almost seems like we should have done in that in the first place. The wizard and Eldritch Knight were able to coordinate thunderwave hits that hammered the gnolls in mass allowing the warlock to feast as most of the gnolls were in one hit kill range after that. The Flaming sphere wasn't stuck in one place. The wizard was able to use it to do damage and place it where the gnolls couldn't mass against any single character without giving us AOOs if they wanted to avoid getting burned. Our attacks do more than the average damage of the sphere, that also helped. Placing our backs against the wall and standing side by side also avoided the gnolls massing against us.I'll remember this next time. We'll coordinate allowing a certain number of creatures through to take full advantage of AoE spells. Thank you for helping to improve our strategy. Letting a mob of creatures through and letting them engage is much better than letting them focus on two characters in a hallway. This discussion did turn out to be fruitful.If you're ever in the same situation, better to let the mob enter the room and have readied AoE spells. Let that be the lesson.</blockquote>

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