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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DragonKnight88" data-source="post: 7273098" data-attributes="member: 6898235">Ok WoW lots a feedback.. Thank you everyone. I will try to answer questions and clarify as best as I can.So in this particular case the group had gone through a 2 "skill challenges" navigating a set of old ruins to locate the Dragons Lair, which was part of an abandoned city connected to a lake. They took on a couple easy fights. They faced off a band of roving Hobogoblins that I modified with some levels of fighter/rogue/druid who were led by an Oni. They had taken a short rest and I would say they had probably 75% of their resources left. This Dragon was going to be an Ally for them. Once they made the decision to fight the Dragon to take Its gear, i told them it could kill the party. But they didnt really worry to much.  I'm thinking of having its Mate/Spawn came after the party and become a thorn in their sides. Yes I did use the legendary resistance, which is why the Dragon didn't die a round earlier. So the diviner and the mystic tag teamed the dragon. My diviner, asked the mystic, Hey wanna Auto-Crit the Dragon. She had a Natural 20 saved up from her Portent ability and replaced his attack roll. He novas his abilities to add 12 Dice to his attack. So after everything was said and done he Crit the dragon for 14d10+12d6+6. I had forgotten she had the Nat 20. Over 100+ points and bam dead Dragon on Round 3. I did bloody the Barb and the Cleric but honestly the fight felt so Anticlimactic. Now for the Build of the Divine trio 2nd Level Paladin, 3rd Level Cleric/ Life Domain, 3rd Level Druid/ Spell Caster build. She recovers 2 spell slots once per day on a short rest. Can Heal 10 Hp through the lay on hands. And always has regular cures available. Walks around in Half Plate and a shield. Uses a club and casts shillelagh to attack things if she doesnt want to cast cantrips at them. But the problem. Is this Cleric of life power. Whenever she casts a spell that heals, Druid Goodberry, they restore Hitpoints equal to 1 + spell level. So she casts it at level 1 and gets 10 berries that restore 3HP each. 4 1st level Slots   30 HP per casting3 2nd Level Slots  40 HP per casting3 3rd Level           50 HP per Casting1 4th Level           60 HP per castingShe mostly uses her 1st and 2nd level spells for goodberries.She uses the Smite abilities of the paladin to smite for 1d8+ 2d8 per spell lvl + casting the actual smite powers like wrathful.She hit the Dragon for 1d8 + 8d8 + 3d6 + 5 she only ever spends her high level slots on damage powers. Or if she didnt need to use a bunch of powers she creates the goodberries which last for 24 hours before losing their potency. To answer about my players seeming bored. They only seem to get excited when it comes time to fight. We used to have some moral dilemmas but we have discovered that those will bring the game to a screeching halt and turn into drag out arguments that result in out of game unhappiness. As for difficulty of a normal adventuring day. I have been slowly ramping the challenge ratings up/ adding non combat challenges But i think I will start using more things like diseases/ Traps/Exhaustion/Chases/ Timed events. Making them choose and facing consequences for their choices. I will also work on what everyone is suggesting about making tweaks to the monsters stats/ abilities and even requiring multiple goals to be able to achieve victory.Thanks everyone. This helps alot!</blockquote>

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