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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 1309605" data-attributes="member: 259">Fair points, D+1.  My advice for folks worried about the encounter is to pace it cheatily;  rather than figuring out that BBEG #1 shows up on round one, #2 shows up round two, #3-5 show up round 4, etc., just have additional bad guys start showing up whenever the PCs are starting to get a handle on the situation.  This will give you, the DM, better control over the combat, minimizing chances that unlucky dice will kill everyone; it'll also make the PCs wonder just how many bad guys there are, and might freak them out. Again, I wasn't able to do this when I ran it, due to my flying PCs, but I think it would've resolved the situation well. Incidentally, about half my group was roleplay-optimized, which led to a few problems.  The worst was when the new PC, a priestess of an Aphrodite-like goddess, went alone back to the PCs' HQ.  The bad guy sent a couple of barghests to the HQ with instructions to use emotion to cause a mob to attack the PCs (figuring that the PCs might kill the mob and thereby earn the enmity of the town); when this completely non-combat-optimized PC showed up alone, it took all my DM wiles not to have her killed within the first fifteen minutes of her being played.  Even so, she got knocked down to 0 str and spent the next session in a coma, and the player went ahead and created another PC <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />. Daniel</blockquote>

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