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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mepher" data-source="post: 7542687" data-attributes="member: 61277">Tonight my group began Dungeon of the Mad Mage.  My group has 4 regular players and 1 who is very irregular.  They went in with the 4 of them tonight.  All are level 5.  We have a Assimar Grave Cleric, Human Battlemaster Fighter, Half Elf Lore Bard, and an Elven Hunter Ranger.  They only had 2 combat encounters tonight and they walked through them both.  They faced 5 Shadows in the Hall of Mirrors and crushed them with no trouble at all.  The big encounter was 4 Bugbears and 6 Goblins with the Bugbears attacking from 2 sides of them.  The encounter ended with the ranger taking 2 hits but never in any real trouble.  Now I rolled pretty bad but still it was a total cake walk.  I ran every creature with full hit points so the Goblins were 12 I believe and the Bugbears were 45.  I really find combat to be a joke in 5E.  I would have to up the encounters to just ridiculous levels to make them a real challenge.Now someone will be quick to tell me that this is by design and these encounters are just part of the design meant to wear down PC resources in their 6-8 encounters per day.  The problem is that these fights did nothing to wear down any resources.  The Fighter didn't even need to use his Superiority dice since these encounters were such a cake walk.  The only healing used was when the bard stepped through an old portal that was affected by the spell plague and took 4d10 damage.  Sure if I had gotten some big rolls it might have gone a little different but lets be honest, 4 Bugbears and 6 Goblins really should be wiping a part of 4 level 5s. Given the confines of the dungeon the goblins really weren't able to make use of their hide and the Bugbears extra damage dice 2d8+2 doesn't count for much when they can't hit the AC 19 Fighter and AC18 Cleric.I just don't see the fun in this style of play.  As soon as the combat ended the players immediately spoke up and said "I know what you're thinking, that was just too damn easy".  They are the ones that benefit from the overpowered superhero system and even they can see the problems with it.</blockquote>

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