#got traumatic flashbacks to when my strixhaven party had to fight a giant scorpion and we almost died | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

possumkingluca · 2 months

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I DM'd for the first time on saturday and who decided that it was reasonable for one of the starting quests of dragon of icespire peak to have the party possibly fight a manticore um i mean the party lived because tasha's hideous laughter is a spell that exists and i'm cursed to forever roll dogshit on wisdom saves i think (though it was probably a blessing in this situation) but what the fuck why would you have a possibly level 1 party encounter a CR 3 enemy hello

wizards of the coast is so good at balancing (<- lying)

#i was so scared for them #got traumatic flashbacks to when my strixhaven party had to fight a giant scorpion and we almost died #and that was at level 3 #we were missing a party member but still we were level 3 and saw god #they tried reasoning with it but it wasn't going well but y'know #they were fine #they pelted it with many arrows and many crossbow bolts #also the group rolled 10s for damage like 5 times in a row which is astonishing #the fight wasn't really a challenge but it did scare the ever living hell out of them so i think it meant it was effective #i wasn't planning on having us do all of that but we speedran all the session 0 stuff #like in a little less than an hour #so i was just like “soo do we wanna end it here or do we wanna start exploring the town”#and i thought they'd explore a bit and then pick a quest for next session but nope #speedrun #dnd #dungeons and dragons #d&d #dungeons & dragons

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