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<blockquote data-quote="GaimMastr" data-source="post: 6256058" data-attributes="member: 78167">My inputThe one critical thing your not understanding about AMF is that it's an emanation centered on the middlemost intersecting lines of the 5x5 square area the dragon is occupying. It's effect would barely make it outside the dragons chest cavity, i.e. useless fro what your intending it to do. Expect your PC's to argue that first if they are paying attention in the &quot;red haze&quot; will call it. Secondly, the APL of the party is 20 (not including any prep they have taken) and the CAEL of the impending battle is, from what I'm reading somewhere around 27-29. So I'll assume that you started the game with a higher difficulty setting (i.e. More than standard point buy) and have very skilled and clever players, which is good, for their escape here, cause that's about all they can hope to do or wipe by round 3-5. By round 2 if your accounting is correct you've &quot;halved&quot; the effectiveness of the party from 20 to 15, and placed the enemy groups AEL up to somewhere around 30. Meaning the encounter, in terms of APL vs. ECL is too far off the scale for standard expectations, so expect the unexpected. By round 3, Likely all of the party will have all but been subdued or killed and the living encumbered or helpless ones will be getting a mudhole stomped in them by the encroaching swarm of cultists. Good job... What now tough guy <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :P"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="GaimMastr, post: 6256058, member: 78167"] [b]My input[/b] The one critical thing your not understanding about AMF is that it's an emanation centered on the middlemost intersecting lines of the 5x5 square area the dragon is occupying. It's effect would barely make it outside the dragons chest cavity, i.e. useless fro what your intending it to do. Expect your PC's to argue that first if they are paying attention in the "red haze" will call it. Secondly, the APL of the party is 20 (not including any prep they have taken) and the CAEL of the impending battle is, from what I'm reading somewhere around 27-29. So I'll assume that you started the game with a higher difficulty setting (i.e. More than standard point buy) and have very skilled and clever players, which is good, for their escape here, cause that's about all they can hope to do or wipe by round 3-5. By round 2 if your accounting is correct you've "halved" the effectiveness of the party from 20 to 15, and placed the enemy groups AEL up to somewhere around 30. Meaning the encounter, in terms of APL vs. ECL is too far off the scale for standard expectations, so expect the unexpected. By round 3, Likely all of the party will have all but been subdued or killed and the living encumbered or helpless ones will be getting a mudhole stomped in them by the encroaching swarm of cultists. Good job... What now tough guy :P [/QUOTE]

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