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Why is Hoard of the Dragon Queen such a bad adventure?
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<blockquote data-quote="sithramir" data-source="post: 6479541" data-attributes="member: 12183"><p>We had 6 players. We have several paladins (several people wanted to try paladins and it became a "group" sent by a holy order to help).</p><p></p><p>We knew the dragon was there and did kill the twig blights earlier in the day. A druid had given us information on the location of the dragon so we did know it was where it was.</p><p></p><p>We had bless up and one of the characters used a fly potion we had found in that town (dragon born).</p><p></p><p>The paladins used vow of emnity to gain advantage on attacks and each smited so that was short burst damage that did use resources.</p><p></p><p>The dragonborn used his breath weapon.</p><p></p><p>The last hit was a crit with smite for 40 damage but we were each doing around 20-30.</p><p></p><p>The sorcerer cast a quickened scorching ray and a scorching ray and the hits did pretty good damage.</p><p></p><p>Three people took the breath weapon from the dragon and all 3 saved and 21 damage wasn't enough to slay anyone luckily.</p><p></p><p>The dragon would have taken it's second attack next and it WOULD have gotten ugly. The point, however, is that the damage we were able to do to it so quickly took him out. He did have 140 hps.</p><p></p><p>It used resources so it wasn't that it was just walking up and making quick work but using normal powers that could be used in any fight as needed took it out that quickly. Even all those hps wern't enough for 3rd level party. The next round someone probably would have died and maybe it would have gotten to fly and changed everything but then range and spells would still be able to hurt it.</p><p></p><p>The 18 AC was right because some scorching ray shots and one attack from someone missed. I kind of feel us hitting it with our heavy guns should count for something in this too BUT it's a dragon. When wouldn't you use your resources when fighting it. Was shocked we lived and it was CR 8.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sithramir, post: 6479541, member: 12183"] We had 6 players. We have several paladins (several people wanted to try paladins and it became a "group" sent by a holy order to help). We knew the dragon was there and did kill the twig blights earlier in the day. A druid had given us information on the location of the dragon so we did know it was where it was. We had bless up and one of the characters used a fly potion we had found in that town (dragon born). The paladins used vow of emnity to gain advantage on attacks and each smited so that was short burst damage that did use resources. The dragonborn used his breath weapon. The last hit was a crit with smite for 40 damage but we were each doing around 20-30. The sorcerer cast a quickened scorching ray and a scorching ray and the hits did pretty good damage. Three people took the breath weapon from the dragon and all 3 saved and 21 damage wasn't enough to slay anyone luckily. The dragon would have taken it's second attack next and it WOULD have gotten ugly. The point, however, is that the damage we were able to do to it so quickly took him out. He did have 140 hps. It used resources so it wasn't that it was just walking up and making quick work but using normal powers that could be used in any fight as needed took it out that quickly. Even all those hps wern't enough for 3rd level party. The next round someone probably would have died and maybe it would have gotten to fly and changed everything but then range and spells would still be able to hurt it. The 18 AC was right because some scorching ray shots and one attack from someone missed. I kind of feel us hitting it with our heavy guns should count for something in this too BUT it's a dragon. When wouldn't you use your resources when fighting it. Was shocked we lived and it was CR 8. [/QUOTE]
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