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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ElterAgo" data-source="post: 7639299" data-attributes="member: 6972046">Again thanks folks for all your advice.Related to the total wealth. I was not aware that 5thEd was intended to be balanced without any magic items. Good to know. Based upon the various examples and lists, I think we might be slightly over 'average' on magic items. But I think we are more than just a bit under 'average' for cash equivalent wealth. I'm kinda ok with that, but I will see what the group thinks.I don't think I want the wizard to have full access to everything from a guild. But maybe in the cities where they are heroically famous, he could talk someone into teaching him spells for say half the suggested price of making a scroll. Plus the scribing cost. The city they are just leaving, they did everything in secret, so no one actually knows about them. Harder to find someone to teach you there. Make sense?The 'surrounded opponent' rules question came about from 2 things.First: Using a written adventure, there were a couple of supposedly scary instances where the PC's are getting over run with skeletons and/or zombies. But it ended up not being at all challenging. Even with 3 or 4 on 1 PC, they almost never scored a hit. The write-up implied that undead gangs would 'make them more cautious.' However, it actually did the opposite since they seemed completely invincible.Second: Party was fighting a high AC opponent paladin or cleric (I wasn't the DM for that one in AL). Almost never scoring hits, and he was healing faster than they were doing damage. It seemed silly that there were 4 characters around it, 2 more slinging spells into the fray, and almost no hits. It wasn't suspenseful, just annoying. Though I admit, none of us thought of aiding. Not sure how that would have changed it.I agree advantage seems too much. Might give them a +1 or +2 to hit if they have the opponent surrounded.I like some of the suggestions for a creature. Phoenix seems like it might end up eventually wrecking the city. I like the sphinx. Though that seems like it might want to take over. Might go with a griffin though. Maybe magically altered to be more powerful/useful.Much to think on.</blockquote>

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