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Hi Everyone! First time poster.
I'm running SWW, and last session I whacked three out of four characters with the first vine horror encounter. The group hadn't reached the Thunderer yet, this was just the first of the "Relentless Horde" flavor encounters.
It seems that the animated assassin vines caused HUGE problems for my group, grappling all of the tanks, and allowing the vine horrors to pummel them mercilesly. Only the mage managed to escape with a Fly spell.
The group isn't wimpy by far. They took out the blue slaad in a single round, made short work of the seven-headed hydra, and made Sutolore look like a consumptive kobold.
Did anyone else run into this? Was it just bad tactics on the group's part, or is this a much harder encounter than it appears?
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Yeah, if you play to their strengths and use the entangle (never mind keeping the Vine Horrors underwater or something equally nasty) they better be flying or have awesome bow skills to take out the real bad guys and not the infinite assassin vines.
There are quite a few threads about this, I'll see if I find a few. As an alternative to Vine Horrors there are some great ideas in my recent thread. I'll go dig up some more..