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<blockquote data-quote="Otterscrubber" data-source="post: 4788458" data-attributes="member: 4588"><p>Ya, so when I finally ran the fight with the black dragon I added a Yuan-ti Abomination to spice it up and I'm glad I did. The first round the dragon did not put up its darkness and the PCs tore into it dong over 100hp of damage (they did all roll very well). After that the darkness was up and they all pretty much needed to roll 20s to hit it, which was frustrating, especially for the rogue who could no longer flank it in the darkness. So even when he did hit it he was not able to use his sneak attack <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p><p></p><p>The fight would have been quite boring if not for the abomination who was able to hit quite hard and accurately and also had reach and climbing so he hung from the ceiling and smacked away at the PCs not in the darkness zone until the invoker pulled him down with his at-will ability that lets him slide opponents. </p><p></p><p>I think the rule here is solos are quite interesting but not when used solo. PCs have a huge tactical advantage when they outnumber something 5 to 1 and it is a fine line between a cakewalk and TPK if you are just going to use 1 monster against a party. Either the solo is so tough or has some advantage that is so great it will wreck the party or they will walk over it if allowed to position themselves to use all their abilities. If they are unable to do so, such as it is flying the whole time, then that has a very good chance to just doom the party without some clever trick to take away the big advantage of the solo. This of course requires a lot of thought for DMs. I think solos are great, but any encounter with them has to be thought out to be interesting, they make poor random encounters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Otterscrubber, post: 4788458, member: 4588"] Ya, so when I finally ran the fight with the black dragon I added a Yuan-ti Abomination to spice it up and I'm glad I did. The first round the dragon did not put up its darkness and the PCs tore into it dong over 100hp of damage (they did all roll very well). After that the darkness was up and they all pretty much needed to roll 20s to hit it, which was frustrating, especially for the rogue who could no longer flank it in the darkness. So even when he did hit it he was not able to use his sneak attack :( The fight would have been quite boring if not for the abomination who was able to hit quite hard and accurately and also had reach and climbing so he hung from the ceiling and smacked away at the PCs not in the darkness zone until the invoker pulled him down with his at-will ability that lets him slide opponents. I think the rule here is solos are quite interesting but not when used solo. PCs have a huge tactical advantage when they outnumber something 5 to 1 and it is a fine line between a cakewalk and TPK if you are just going to use 1 monster against a party. Either the solo is so tough or has some advantage that is so great it will wreck the party or they will walk over it if allowed to position themselves to use all their abilities. If they are unable to do so, such as it is flying the whole time, then that has a very good chance to just doom the party without some clever trick to take away the big advantage of the solo. This of course requires a lot of thought for DMs. I think solos are great, but any encounter with them has to be thought out to be interesting, they make poor random encounters. [/QUOTE]
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