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<blockquote data-quote="AvtrSpirit" data-source="post: 9053640" data-attributes="member: 7042141">Yeah, 2e encounters are hard. However, there are tactics to make them <s>easier</s> survivable. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that combat is only 50% about using your &quot;best&quot; abilities and the rest 50% is working with the rest of the team to make combat easier. Three pieces of broad tactical advice:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Look for ways to make your bonuses go higher (spells, magic weapon, inspire courage etc.)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Look for ways to make enemy's number go lower (flanking, demoralize with frightened, other conditions. Many of these also reduce the monster's DC)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">If facing one (or two) stronger enemies, look for ways to deny them actions or take away their actions (drop prone, grab, &quot;Slow&quot; spell)</li>
</ul>All of this will tilt the math in your party's favour, taking the party survival chance from 65% in really difficult fights to 80-85% (numbers made up, but roughly correspond to the increase in attack probability).All that said, death is still very much on the table with 2e encounters. At that point, you have to pray to the dice gods. Though 2e has never felt (to me) to be so unfair that a single die roll kills a PC or decides a battle. It is usually a string of bad dice rolls that leads to catastrophe.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AvtrSpirit, post: 9053640, member: 7042141"] Yeah, 2e encounters are hard. However, there are tactics to make them [S]easier[/S] survivable. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that combat is only 50% about using your "best" abilities and the rest 50% is working with the rest of the team to make combat easier. Three pieces of broad tactical advice: [LIST] [*]Look for ways to make your bonuses go higher (spells, magic weapon, inspire courage etc.) [*]Look for ways to make enemy's number go lower (flanking, demoralize with frightened, other conditions. Many of these also reduce the monster's DC) [*]If facing one (or two) stronger enemies, look for ways to deny them actions or take away their actions (drop prone, grab, "Slow" spell) [/LIST] All of this will tilt the math in your party's favour, taking the party survival chance from 65% in really difficult fights to 80-85% (numbers made up, but roughly correspond to the increase in attack probability). All that said, death is still very much on the table with 2e encounters. At that point, you have to pray to the dice gods. Though 2e has never felt (to me) to be so unfair that a single die roll kills a PC or decides a battle. It is usually a string of bad dice rolls that leads to catastrophe. [/QUOTE]

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