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<blockquote data-quote="Retreater" data-source="post: 9053629" data-attributes="member: 42040">A 5th level Gibbering Mouther is a &quot;Moderate&quot; challenging encounter for 4 3rd-level characters. A moderate encounter should feel challenging, and isn't a &quot;breeze&quot; like it is in 5e. In the case that you might have people who don't know their characters' abilities yet (inexperienced in 2e), a party configuration that seems suboptimal for the situation, I'm not 100% surprised. I'd really recommend when you're learning a system to do a few encounters at 1st level. And do them at creatures your level (or lower) instead of higher levelled monsters that are basically like solo boss fights. For the love of all that is holy, while you're learning the system, try Low encounters with creatures/hazards lower than the party level. Your past experience with other editions of the game is probably doing more harm than good.It's similar to saying, &quot;we'll we've played lots of D&amp;D - so let's jump into Call of Cthulhu. Our tactics and knowledge of D&amp;D will make us awesome at killing Cthulhu and taking his loot.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Retreater, post: 9053629, member: 42040"] A 5th level Gibbering Mouther is a "Moderate" challenging encounter for 4 3rd-level characters. A moderate encounter should feel challenging, and isn't a "breeze" like it is in 5e. In the case that you might have people who don't know their characters' abilities yet (inexperienced in 2e), a party configuration that seems suboptimal for the situation, I'm not 100% surprised. I'd really recommend when you're learning a system to do a few encounters at 1st level. And do them at creatures your level (or lower) instead of higher levelled monsters that are basically like solo boss fights. For the love of all that is holy, while you're learning the system, try Low encounters with creatures/hazards lower than the party level. Your past experience with other editions of the game is probably doing more harm than good. It's similar to saying, "we'll we've played lots of D&D - so let's jump into Call of Cthulhu. Our tactics and knowledge of D&D will make us awesome at killing Cthulhu and taking his loot." [/QUOTE]

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