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Message: <blockquote data-quote="evilbob" data-source="post: 4709024" data-attributes="member: 9789">Couple thoughts:I agree with banana man (Kamikaze Midget).  Badwe and Shroomy, we are cool to agree to disagree, but your points are good ones and certainly valid.MadLordOfMilk:  your PCs have angels watching over them.  <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=":)" />  Seriously, an n+5 brute is something you need an average of around 14 or 15 to hit, it has the same HP as your whole party put together - plus this one can heal itself - and it should be dropping characters after maybe 4-5 hits.  Throw in some flanking buddies that are not minions (and something else that prones to boot), and you have a battle that statistically should TPK much more often than not.  All that said:  since you (the owner of the book) are the DM, clearly you have control over how it turns out.  It just seems a bit harsh.  And it's not the only battle that seems quite stacked against the PCs.However, someone else mentioned enemies being constrained and not acting optimally.  Actually, that's something else I noticed:  there are several situations where enemies do not and cannot act optimally.  For example, area 4-3 has a powerful melee enemy that gives great bonuses to other melee types paired with 3 ranged enemies who specifically "never engage in melee."  You end up with several powerful abilities unusable.  In other places, they give you monsters that work ok, but a few substitutions would be even more tactically challenging for the PCs.  I'm guessing this is how they make up for the extreme difficulty of the encounter - nerf monster tactics?  It's a weird idea, but something I'm not opposed to.</blockquote>

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