G.A. Donis
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In a recent encounter, my 6th level fire genasi fighter (56 HP) was completely and utterly destroyed....in the suprise round. I'm talking do not pass Go, do not collect 200gp, go straight to very dead. He got hit four times by two animated trees with 1 of those a critical. We didn't actually count up all the damage, but it took me past -10 with a plenty of room to spare.
The module we were running was supposed to be for 4 7th level characters. The whole encounter had the two animated trees (A treant off somewhere doing this), a sorcerer, 2 elven archers of some type, and some evil fairy thing (I think). Supposedly it all added up to an EL12. Our party was 5 people all 7th level (one a veritable multi-class nightmare with 3 or 4 classes). The only reason anybody survived, was because the DM took pity (a rare occurance for him) and the treant pretty much sat out the fight and the multi-class nightmare had spellfire and emptied her energy on one tree and took it out.
I thought my fighter with a 20 AC was armored pretty well. What would you expect for a 7th level front line fighter's AC? And putting 4 7th level characters against an EL12, doesn't that seem a little harsh?
To be fair to the DM, when he realised he just killed my character before anybody had time to blink, he was going to "adjust" the damage to put him at -5. I told him don't worry, if he dies, he dies and I'll roll up another, no biggie. I think the party's going to help spring for a true ressurection as soon as we get out of the boonies and back to civilization. Anyway, more than 66 damage in the suprise round really qualified as a suprise (in my book) and makes me wonder if my fighter isn't very under protected. What say ye?
The module we were running was supposed to be for 4 7th level characters. The whole encounter had the two animated trees (A treant off somewhere doing this), a sorcerer, 2 elven archers of some type, and some evil fairy thing (I think). Supposedly it all added up to an EL12. Our party was 5 people all 7th level (one a veritable multi-class nightmare with 3 or 4 classes). The only reason anybody survived, was because the DM took pity (a rare occurance for him) and the treant pretty much sat out the fight and the multi-class nightmare had spellfire and emptied her energy on one tree and took it out.
I thought my fighter with a 20 AC was armored pretty well. What would you expect for a 7th level front line fighter's AC? And putting 4 7th level characters against an EL12, doesn't that seem a little harsh?
To be fair to the DM, when he realised he just killed my character before anybody had time to blink, he was going to "adjust" the damage to put him at -5. I told him don't worry, if he dies, he dies and I'll roll up another, no biggie. I think the party's going to help spring for a true ressurection as soon as we get out of the boonies and back to civilization. Anyway, more than 66 damage in the suprise round really qualified as a suprise (in my book) and makes me wonder if my fighter isn't very under protected. What say ye?