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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James McMurray" data-source="post: 3454325" data-attributes="member: 743">Yep, really. Maybe my group is just scary at dealing out damage to single foes so the GMs (including me) send multiple foes instead.Out of ciruiosity, checking Age of worms at levels 15+ for encounters. I haven't read these, so am just looking at number of creatures per encounter. (Spoilers below)[spoiler]The Prince of Red Hand: 1 - CR 10 enemy vs. EL 15 players, orbs don't matter here because you could sneeze on this guy and kill him2 - 2 enemies, neither with SR3 - 1 enemy, golem, orbs would rock4 - 1 enemy with high SR, orbs would rock5 - 4 enemies, no SR6 - 1 enemy, orbs would rockThe Library of Last Resort1 - 9 enemies2 - 1 enemy, orbs would rock3 - 6 enemies4 - 1 enemy, no SR5 - 4 enemies with constant 50% miss chances, orbs could blow6 - 7 enemies7 - 1 enemy, no SR8 - 6 enemies9 - 1 enemy, no SR10 - 1 enemy, no SR11 - 1 enemy, no SR12 - 3 enemies13 - 1 enemy, orbs would rock14 - 21 enemiesKings of the Rift (after this point I'm too lazy to type orbs would rock unless they are facing a single enemy with magic immunity or higher than average SR for its CR). Throughout this area many sections that list one or two enemies are set up so that enemy joins another fight already in progress unless here's no noise to alert them.1 - 12 enemies2 - 1 enemy3 - 27 enemies4 - 24 enemies5 - 7 enemies6 - 1 enemy7 - 1 enemy8 - 1 enemy9 - 30 enemies, but set up so that you only encounter a small group at a time10 - 21 enemies, but they're no challenge unless some players get screwed by a trap11 - 1 enemy12 - 245 enemies (no, that's not a typo. There'sa ton of little creatues, but they're carrion crawlers, so could get lucky and take out some PCs via paralysis)13 - 1 enemy14 - 1 enemy15 - 2 enemies16 - 1 really weak enemy, sneezing kills it17 - 1 enemy18 - 2 enemies19 - 1 enemy20 - 7 enemies you can sneeze on21 - 2 enemies(end area where single gang up)22 - 1 enemy23 - 1 enemy24 - 1 enemy25 - 1 enemy26 - 1 enemy, orbs would rockInto the Worm Crawl Fissure1 - 4 enemies2 - 9 enemies3 - 5 enemies, 4 are golems4 - 3 enemies, orbs would rock due to higher than average SR on 2 of the critters5 - 2 enemies6 - 1 enemy7 - 6 enemies8 - 6 enemies9 - 1 enemy10 - 1 enemy11 - 1 enemy12 - 3 enemeies13 - 1 - 3 enemies depedning on eventsDawn o fa New Age1 - 2 enemies2 - 12 enemies3 - 33 enemies4 - 1 enemy5 - 4 enemies6 - 8 enemies7 - 6 enemies8 - 4 enemies9 - 4 enemies10 - 1 enemy11 - 6 enemies12 - 4 enemies13 - 1 enemy14 - 3 enemies15 - 9 enemies[/spoiler]Out of 74 encounters, 32 are against a single foe. Of those, only a handful have SR that's higher than their CR would indicate and therefor play fully to the strengths of orbs. 30 of them are against groups of 4 or more, and hence play to the weakness of single targetted spells. 10 of them are against 10+ enemies, making an orb focused caster really sad. One of them is against 245 enemies, which will make a guy that focused on orbs wish he hadn't thrown away his crossbow 15 levels ago. <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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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