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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 787063" data-attributes="member: 907">This has a few spoilers for the very start of Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil.A few weeks ago, my players were just starting the Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil adventure. There were five PCs, plus two NPCs from Hommlet who wanted to come along and see what was going on in the moathouse. When they entered the moathouse's courtyard, they were of course attacked by the dragon... who proceeded to maul them utterly. Two characters (one NPC and one PC) fell in the very first round to a moderately lucky breath weapon (31 points of damage against 4th level PCs), and the dragon then proceeded to claw and bite the rest to death, with a few more lightning bolts here and there. Two of the PCs ran away, and the rest of the party died (though more or less in the opposite order, they ran when they saw how much ass the dragon kicked).When the two surviving PCs got themselves a new party and returned, things went much better. Probably due to people avoiding standing in a row and the dragon rolling a little worse on his breath weapons. One NPC died, and two PCs went down to negative hp, but at least the party prevailed and managed to kill the dragon.</blockquote>