I'm curious to how this played out and what your party makeup was.You've got 8 minions, 6 level 1 monsters, 2 level 3 monsters, and one level 2 monster (? the dog ?)
That's..what, 1600 xp worth of creatures in a single level 1 encounter?
Shoot, based on the feedback from the TPK thread, a lot of parties have problems with a 1250 xp encounter (Irontooth) at level 1.
Hello !!
Sorry for the delay in the answer, but I've been busy with work and then I went on holydays!! :)Anyway, in the group there is just a leader (cleric), two defenders (fighter and paladin), one controller and one striker (TWF ranger). The encounter was though, but it was my first time Dming 4e, so I surely forgetten something (the goblin ability, for example). Anyway, everithing played out quite well. The combat area was quite big, so the two defender blocked goblin on two sides, while the striker ran everywhere killing the "big" guys. When the Hexer came in, there had some trouble, but after a couple of rounds of panic, everything went ok. The wizard used his sleep on the first wave, neutralizing the blacblade and all the minions, while the ranger dropped a couple of times. But the cleric and paladin did their job quite well. I didn't know the rules for mount, so the goblin dog did nothing. And the defender nailed down the skullclever with a daily plus crit.
So, I think players have been lucky, but the encounter went on very smoothly, and the effect was quite good. At about round 5 the party seemed to be overhelmed, but they decided to go on and turned the wave!!
Very cool!! :)
I'm also curious if anyone remembers that there were only supposed to be some 30 goblins attacking Sandpoint in 3(?) groups (with one of those not actually attacking anything). This would be about half that number, all showing up in the same general area within a minute of the fight starting.
You're right... I forgot it... My love for minions won over adventure consistency!! ;)
I'm a fan of breaking the combats up...at least the first two and Die, Dog, Die I feel should be separated into a pair of encounters. There's less chance of overwhelming your party (especially if you have a single leader type and he has to burn his encounter powers early) and it makes more sense to me within the boundaries of the attack.
That's right, but I wanted a powerful introduction. It was our first take on 4e and I wanted to be sure that everyone understood his own powers and the differencies between the static 3.5 fights and the dynamic 4e ones.
Surely, the fight was hard for a beginning, but it was funny and everyone acted at his best.
Sorry for the lenghty post and for the language (my native language isn't english, so I apologize for the mistakes). Anyway, I'll post my conversion soon and I hope to start working on the second part (Thistletop) soon!!
See you!!