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<blockquote data-quote="vandaexpress" data-source="post: 6597174" data-attributes="member: 6790472"><p>For all the flak that the first episode gets (especially the fight with Cyanwrath) I, and others, seem to have found that the Hatchery is really where the difficulty seems to spike. The exact same thing happened with my group in having the dungeon get pulled in on top of them, it was a TPK that culminated in their being captured by Mondath which is where everything went way off the rails (in a good way). From what I'm seeing and reading of the later segments, the difficulty curve eases up a bit once you make it out of the hatchery. In fact, I'm finding myself having to bump the difficulty of some of these later fights, once the party hits level 5, it's a whole different ball game.</p><p></p><p>The only part I can see later on where I'm going "wtf is going on with this encounter balancing" is when the party is supposed to face Sandesyl in the last chapter. Sandesyl is a <strong>vampire</strong>. I could be wrong, but it seems really strange to me that they would just casually throw her in there when, and maybe I haven't analyzed the other encounters closely enough, that fight would seem to be much more difficult than the boss battle with Rezmir?</p><p></p><p>Especially given that she life drains, which is a straight up kill when the PC gets reduced to 0, no stabilizing, no death saves, insta-death.</p><p></p><p>Has anyone actually run skyreach with Sandesyl? Is it as brutal as it looks or am I overestimating the difficulty of that fight?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vandaexpress, post: 6597174, member: 6790472"] For all the flak that the first episode gets (especially the fight with Cyanwrath) I, and others, seem to have found that the Hatchery is really where the difficulty seems to spike. The exact same thing happened with my group in having the dungeon get pulled in on top of them, it was a TPK that culminated in their being captured by Mondath which is where everything went way off the rails (in a good way). From what I'm seeing and reading of the later segments, the difficulty curve eases up a bit once you make it out of the hatchery. In fact, I'm finding myself having to bump the difficulty of some of these later fights, once the party hits level 5, it's a whole different ball game. The only part I can see later on where I'm going "wtf is going on with this encounter balancing" is when the party is supposed to face Sandesyl in the last chapter. Sandesyl is a [B]vampire[/B]. I could be wrong, but it seems really strange to me that they would just casually throw her in there when, and maybe I haven't analyzed the other encounters closely enough, that fight would seem to be much more difficult than the boss battle with Rezmir? Especially given that she life drains, which is a straight up kill when the PC gets reduced to 0, no stabilizing, no death saves, insta-death. Has anyone actually run skyreach with Sandesyl? Is it as brutal as it looks or am I overestimating the difficulty of that fight? [/QUOTE]
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