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<blockquote data-quote="Nemesis Destiny" data-source="post: 5537076" data-attributes="member: 98255">I think, &quot;don't worry, just throw everything you've got at them&quot; can be good advice if you want to challenge them, but be careful with it, too.Last session I ran a simple level 1 encounter for my group. Six players, 600xp worth of monsters. It was actually a reskinned and tweaked version of one of the encounters from the Dark Sun Campaign Guide. I was a little worried because some of the monsters had encounter attacks that did 4d6+4 damage, but I thought, &quot;meh, I'll bloody someone with this, or drop them at worst, but nobody will die. It's an at-level encounter, and only level 1. I'm sure those damage dice aren't as bad as they look.&quot;Oh boy, was I wrong about that.The baddies ambushed the party, and only the Sentinel had a high enough perception not to be surprised. The Hunter was isolated at the start of battle and not within LoS of the rest of the group. She got bloodied well into the single-digit hp by the ranged attacker's first and second volleys. The paladin was the other target of the first couple volleys, also taken down to 8 hp by the surprise round and first initiative pass. Then, she got attacked by one of those 4d6-plus-whatever encounter powers. Crit.The poor girl was chunky salsa before she even got to act (and before the Sentinel Druid could come to her aid). I actually kind of felt bad for her player. He took it well enough though.During the battle, I also bloodied the Slayer, and took a good chunk out of the Sorcerer. The Warden didn't get hit at all (polearms help with that). It was far from a TPK, but now I'm a little gunshy. I worry because they have&nbsp; a big encounter coming up soon, and after that, I'm worried I will end up with a TPK.I keep telling myself, &quot;it's only zombies and a couple cultists.&quot;Sure. Only zombies. We'll see. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nemesis Destiny, post: 5537076, member: 98255"] I think, "don't worry, just throw everything you've got at them" can be good advice if you want to challenge them, but be careful with it, too. Last session I ran a simple level 1 encounter for my group. Six players, 600xp worth of monsters. It was actually a reskinned and tweaked version of one of the encounters from the Dark Sun Campaign Guide. I was a little worried because some of the monsters had encounter attacks that did 4d6+4 damage, but I thought, "meh, I'll bloody someone with this, or drop them at worst, but nobody will die. It's an at-level encounter, and only level 1. I'm sure those damage dice aren't as bad as they look." Oh boy, was I [I]wrong[/I] about that. The baddies ambushed the party, and only the Sentinel had a high enough perception not to be surprised. The Hunter was isolated at the start of battle and not within LoS of the rest of the group. She got bloodied well into the single-digit hp by the ranged attacker's first and second volleys. The paladin was the other target of the first couple volleys, also taken down to 8 hp by the surprise round and first initiative pass. Then, she got attacked by one of those 4d6-plus-whatever encounter powers. Crit. The poor girl was chunky salsa before she even got to act (and before the Sentinel Druid could come to her aid). I actually kind of felt bad for her player. He took it well enough though. During the battle, I also bloodied the Slayer, and took a good chunk out of the Sorcerer. The Warden didn't get hit at all (polearms help with that). It was far from a TPK, but now I'm a little gunshy. I worry because they have a big encounter coming up soon, and after that, I'm worried I [I]will[/I] end up with a TPK. I keep telling myself, "it's [I]only[/I] zombies and a couple cultists." Sure. Only zombies. We'll see. ;) [/QUOTE]

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