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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 3255212" data-attributes="member: 1">This was an interesting one.  Because we were one player down, I didn't worry too much about it.  However, the module spoke at length about how this was an EL 8 encounter, and was really, really tough for the 5th level party.  It wanred that it would be easy to kill all of the players if they weren't careful.But, just looking at the stat blocks, it wasn't.30 lizardmen, all of which would need a 20 to hit any of the PCs.  One attack each per round.  Assuming every single one of those 30 lizardmen in the battle was attacking a PC every single round, one in 20 attacks would hit - meaning 1.5 hits per round, total, doing less than 10 damage each time.  And that's being generous - reaslitically, there's no way all 30 would be attacking every round (heck, the thing was set up so the PCs could engage groups of 5-6 lizardmen at a time), and the PCs are powerful enough to kill or disable several lizardmen every round, reducing those figures further with each round that passed.  It's an easy, easy, easy fight - even full on with no tactics.  Add a few judicious spells and a bit of movement, and it's like stepping on ants.A bad bit of mdule writing, I think.  Or proof that the EL system doesn't work!As it was the last session before Christmas, and we were missing a player, I didn't worry too much - figured a couple of easy groups would be a nice way to let them swing their swords about a bit without any real threat.  They dealt with two out of six groups fairly quickly (I don't think any of the PCs actually took damage - if any did, it was minimal).  The remaining four groups will be a bit tougher! <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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