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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 753014" data-attributes="member: 463">I remember one game I played in where our party, around 3rd-4th level I think, were attacked by about 30 or so Yuan-Ti awakened from stasis-sleep (don't think they were using most of their magic powers, so they were about CR3 each), the Yuan-Ti enemy leader was CR 8 or so.&nbsp; The inexperienced DM had totally screwed up in terms of what makes a survivable encounter - although to be fair, the reason they were all awakened like that was due to a traitorous PC in our party, who then buggered off and left us all to die.We were trapped in the dungeon with Yuan-Ti on all sides.&nbsp; We fought incredibly hard and well (&quot;like Warrior-Poets&quot;, to quote a certain film) but there was no way on earth we were going to win, until the DM reduced the Yuan-Ti leader's hp by 20 from 67 to 47, which meant we _just_ killed it and survived the hardest fight I've ever seen.&nbsp; In that case, I can forgive the DM for 'cheating', and I kinda wish he hadn't told us afterwards about reducing the leader's hp.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 753014, member: 463"] I remember one game I played in where our party, around 3rd-4th level I think, were attacked by about 30 or so Yuan-Ti awakened from stasis-sleep (don't think they were using most of their magic powers, so they were about CR3 each), the Yuan-Ti enemy leader was CR 8 or so. The inexperienced DM had totally screwed up in terms of what makes a survivable encounter - although to be fair, the reason they were all awakened like that was due to a traitorous PC in our party, who then buggered off and left us all to die. We were trapped in the dungeon with Yuan-Ti on all sides. We fought incredibly hard and well ("like Warrior-Poets", to quote a certain film) but there was no way on earth we were going to win, until the DM reduced the Yuan-Ti leader's hp by 20 from 67 to 47, which meant we _just_ killed it and survived the hardest fight I've ever seen. In that case, I can forgive the DM for 'cheating', and I kinda wish he hadn't told us afterwards about reducing the leader's hp. [/QUOTE]

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