It certainly is a *tough* party - abjuration wizards have temp HP, dwarf is dwarf, paladin has aura etc... but do they have any decent ranged attacks?
Hm since you ask .... Are you sure the theme is Viking?
If someone would introduce this Party to me and say: "guess what overarching theme these are created for?"
then i would answer: "Oh is it planescape or are you are doing an Anime themed D&D night?"
Yea i did not overlook that theres one MCd Berserker.
What i do miss is a skald, a runebased sorcerer or wizard, a druid, a bear totem barbarian, a shamanic flavored cleric, maybe a stormsorcerer etc.
You can lead a player to a Viking-themed table, but you can't keep stop him from playing a ninja.Some players are better at playing to the theme than others.
Yup, that was my reaction too. If the dragon takes to the air and strafes them with its breath weapon while staying out of melee range, they will have a lot of trouble.I was only being partially facetious with my first post in this thread (fyi to everyone else, I was planning to play a ranger in iserith's game, but wasn't able to make the planned date and time). The big weakness I see is a party without much ranged DPR and a boss monster that can fly.
If not, however, you might want to set things up so they can face the dragon in a relatively confined part of its lair.
Well, there is that.But then they wouldn't learn any valuable lessons.
Well, there is that.
Again, however, this depends on the players. Some players will take a lesson from this: "Man, we need ranged combat options." Other players will just be upset that the fight was so one-sided. Not everyone approaches D&D as an opportunity for self-improvement. Some folks just want to roll dice and hit monsters.
Only you know which category your players fall into, of course.