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My daughter is sick and we can't join our normal game. Time for me and the wife to do a strange play test where I play and am DM (less than ideal I know) and the wife is a legit player. I'm playing a variant of a Intimidate-based Fighter I made a while ago, this time with 12 levels of Avenger.
We're doing however much of The Demon Within we can get through. The first thing I noticed is that invisiblity + Frightning Appearance is somewhat ambiguous. Do the enemies "witness the attack" if I'm greater invisibilitied? I'm ruling yes for now. We need the help.
I decide that I expect that the main dude being inaugurated is going to be assassinated, so I can't afford a FIVE MINUTE change time. I have to be here in Vigilante form. I'm hiding in the rafters. My wife has managed to snag an invitation proper and thus is in the bleachers. I'm already nervous because the party is split.
The fight my wife chose (she's making all the choices because I have more info than I should have) is a tough one. I'm moving at a 20 because I needed the AC and Vigilante doesn't have the Armor Training I had been relying on. That might be just a build issue, though it's the biggest thing I've noticed so far. I've intimidated the demon -- my build design is working, he's just very slow to move around the battlefield.
I died. [Edited to add: But the demon was at 3HP when I died and the wife finished him off.] Full attacks from the demon were brutal, and it was my job to soak them all. Luckily, we're literally in a temple full of clerics. We were very ill prepared for demons. That was almost definitely part of character design, but so far everything except intimidate and reasonable but not insane amounts of damage, I suck at.
I'll continue if we continue the campaign, but we're stoping for now because the sick daughter woke back up.