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Well, I just wanted to get some of your opinions. This Sunday my gaming group got together and half our part was missing. I had a lvl 10 rogue/assassin, a lvl 8 mage, a lvl 9 priest, and a level 7 ranger, lvl 2 fighter. They killed three blue dragons, (young adult CR10) and 2 Wyrmling dragons. Now first. They came, one young adult, then the other two after the first was killed. There was no setup, as the dragons were totally unprepared. (They never thought they could be challenged by four piddling adventurers). I gave each of the three dragon 250 HP, almost max. Now the characters are overpowered, (hence the reason I had the dragon attack) and the dragon weren't very bright. (Normally blue dragons are very intelligent, but these were driven by anger not reason) Here is a bit about the characters. The mage is probably the most powerful. He has THREE rings of wizardry. Two on his hand, one on a hand of glory. These double his 1-3 level spells, leaving him with an arsenal. He has spell penetration, and his saves were plus four for most attack spells due to spell focus, and an item. The Ranger had a +2 bow (mighty up to +5) and bracer of archery +2. Using +2 arrows, and a custom spell by the wizard which splits arrows into 3 when fired. (only had 4 with the spell on it though) then he had +1 flaming arrows. as backups. Rapid fire and a haste spell had him shooting four arrows every round. (the first splitting to three for four rounds.) The priest made sure everyone had protection from electricity and bears heart, and bull str for the archer, so he was getting max damage bonus from the bow. He also had a channel to the rogue who was taking most of the hits, so that he could heal him from a distance. The rogue, wasn't doing much damage but still got his licks in with bladed gauntlets doing great crits. (enchanted to +2) Ah another thing I forgot to mention is that the mage stone skinned the Rogue and archer and had two more scrolls of the spell as back up. Now here are the tactics. The archer and mage started right away at a distance. The archer doing ++10 per arrow (+2 bracers, +2 bow, +2 arrow, +4 str) and the mage shooting lightning bolt or MM from a wand. The dragon tried his breath weapon with no luck, because of the prot spell. Also strafing was hurting too much, as the time it took him to turn, were shots he took by the archer. So he really had no choice but to close in. Here the rogue was getting him with crits, and the archer would take some hit, the stone skin taking most, and then take a five foot step and fire off four more arrows getting another +1 for Point Blank Shot. Also the priest could jump in with his weapon, and the dragon had to split attacks on the ground. Either way it was hurting. I forgot, Also the rogue had scrolls and a wand made by the mage, and his use magic device is up there. Now, the opinions. Does it sound like great tactics and prep, or just a way overpowered party?
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