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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ottergame" data-source="post: 4672932" data-attributes="member: 9326">I am the GM in the OP's post.  I did not factor the lowered DCs into account for the module, I forgot that came out before the errata, this would have changed the outcome of the hobogoblin interrogation.  Had I used lower DCs, they never would have fought the cave bear.  Thankfully the cave bear was more bark then bite, I think I only hit twice in the entire fight.The kruthik fight went poorly, though.  The OPs rogue woke the baby nest, alerting the rest of the monsters to his presence.  After the minions were killed and as the rogue was repositioning, the kruthiks were burrowing through the ground, and detected him (and only him) with tremorsense. This was my first time seeing krutiks, and when I saw them, I saw Zerg.  Burrowing underground, spitting poison, vicious buglizards.So, they burrowed underground, popped up around the rouge, and zerg rushed him.  I expected to drop him, I did not expect to kill him in one hit.  The rest of the party was to far away to help, or to even prove a distraction until it was to late.They then ganged up on the fighter, who barely managed to Not Die for several rounds until the young were killed.  Had I used the creatures aura and had the adults acutlaly managed to recharge their spits, that fight would have ended in a wipe.  Especially if I had used my original idea of having the adults hang far back, spitting and then burrowing until they recharged, using hit and run tactics.Had I to redo that fight, I think I would have changed them into a different encounter, perhaps a hobogoblin scout force, or a small pack of drakes.  The burrowing tactic proved to be what pushed this encounter over the edge.</blockquote>

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