Reading this thread makes my soul hurt. Roleplaying seems to be a lost and unwanted art.
To the two group players in the discussed group, if you can't get into combat before it ends all the problems you're having are due to your GM not adjusting the CR of your encounters appropriately.
To be fair, it's kind of hard to do anything as a GM when the players all fill very similar roles(stabbing things), but 2 of them do it kind of ok, and the rest do it about as well as a CR=APL-7 fighter. Unless blatant heavy handed fudging and metagaming is considered acceptable in these circumstances?
Reading this thread makes my soul hurt. Roleplaying seems to be a lost and unwanted art.
To the two group players in the discussed group, if you can't get into combat before it ends all the problems you're having are due to your GM not adjusting the CR of your encounters appropriately.
Believe me, myself and another player lament over the loss of roleplaying since we have two people who only crunch numbers and their extent of roleplaying is counting money and praising their ridiculous diplomacy and intimidation rolls.
Anywho, hopefully with the group coming together to hash out the issues we can improve on avoiding this situation again.