Okay, we have just completed trail of the beast with a three person team. Evoker, sword and board fighter and gunslinger.
Following the advice of NPCs and OOC advice from our DM, we wimped out and took advantage of
However, both I and the fighter where curious, so we also kept track of the combat. The result would have been the same either way.
After such a build up, it feels a little anticlimactic that we took it down in tree rounds. There are a few possible explinations. We are a level higher than expected thanks to being short a party member, and we are built with 25 points rather than 15. The DM is also not hugely experienced and might be that he wasn't playing the BBEG well.
However, I can't help feel that it wasn't really that tough. What where your experiences fighting this thing, or running it.
Okay, we have just completed trail of the beast with a three person team. Evoker, sword and board fighter and gunslinger.
Following the advice of NPCs and OOC advice from our DM, we wimped out and took advantage of ** spoiler omitted **, while my wizard and the gunslinger laid down the fire support.
However, both I and the fighter where curious, so we also kept track of the combat. The result would have been the same either way.
After such a build up, it feels a little anticlimactic that we took it down in tree rounds. There are a few possible explinations. We are a level higher than expected thanks to being short a party member, and we are built with 25 points rather than 15. The DM is also not hugely experienced and might be that he wasn't playing the BBEG well.
However, I can't help feel that it wasn't really that tough. What where your experiences fighting this thing, or running it.
Without having GM'd it, I can guarantee that the 25 pt buy trio against the inexperienced GM tilted the playing field in your favor considerably since it seems that your GM continued to run it "as is" instead of modifying that encounter to account for the extra badassery your group has at its disposal.
Okay, we have just completed trail of the beast with a three person team. Evoker, sword and board fighter and gunslinger.
Following the advice of NPCs and OOC advice from our DM, we wimped out and took advantage of ** spoiler omitted **, while my wizard and the gunslinger laid down the fire support.
However, both I and the fighter where curious, so we also kept track of the combat. The result would have been the same either way.
After such a build up, it feels a little anticlimactic that we took it down in tree rounds. There are a few possible explinations. We are a level higher than expected thanks to being short a party member, and we are built with 25 points rather than 15. The DM is also not hugely experienced and might be that he wasn't playing the BBEG well.
However, I can't help feel that it wasn't really that tough. What where your experiences fighting this thing, or running it.
Without having GM'd it, I can guarantee that the 25 pt buy trio against the inexperienced GM tilted the playing field in your favor considerably since it seems that your GM continued to run it "as is" instead of modifying that encounter to account for the extra badassery your group has at its disposal.
In my defense. I did ask that we to play 15 points.
One of the first lessons of DMing should be how to fudge dice rolls, adjust monster bps, and add new abilities on the fly. I havnt dmed trial yet but harrowstone was pretty easy for my party so I adjusted almost every battle. The main baffles for instance had about double the health. Just as an example.
I'm surprised it wouldn't have the advantage with moan and grab/paralytic tentacles.
"while my wizard ... laid down the fire support."
Still a flesh golem-- still immune to spells with SR.
I'm surprised it wouldn't have the advantage with moan and grab/paralytic tentacles.
"while my wizard ... laid down the fire support."
Still a flesh golem-- still immune to spells with SR.
Oh joy...
Looks like he completely ignored the magic immunity. That would explain one hell of a lot.
I knew there was something like that when I knowledges checked the first flesh golem, but when he didn't tell say anything about it, I just assumed I was imagining the fact that magic didn't do much to them.