Fun at peternever's today. For those who don't already know, we're playing the Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil module. We got ourselves into a fight with a number of hobgoblins, goblins, and a dire ape. Thanks to peternever rolling about three crits on one character (our cleric, no less) in the first four rounds, we were pretty much toast. By the end of the fight, Hawk and Phineas (the cleric) were dead, and Kain and Barnabus had retreated into the tower we had just walked out of to throw alchemist's fire and fireball beads (from a necklase of fireballs) down on the group of creatures.
They eventually killed them all (except for one wiley goblin), retrieved what was left of our bodies and took us back to town to be raised.
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I still feel bad about that. It was an ugly encounter. Still- 20/20 hindsight and all, there *was* a way to get through that encounter relatively safely (the way you ended up doing it at the end, but simply doing it earlier).
Of course, I didn't notice this myself until it was all over. I think that the regular hobgoblins simply didn't seem threatening at first, and that one leader (4th level fighter/1st rogue) with bulls-strength +the double-bladed sword simply took it out on you guys.
Can you honestly tell me that Hawk the Wyrmslayer would back away from a fight with a few hobgoblins? ;-)
Well, Dave, I finally get to your site (it was blocked at school) only to find out there really is no porn. God bless you, WebSense, the very source of all things websensical.
And as for our courageous battle against strategy, well, I blame Hannor. A few beers, a few hundred GP, and some spiffy armor- I know I'd repeatedly and unreservedly lay done my life for some Johnny-come-latelys with a deathwish! Dwarf NPCs these days, sheesh.
Phinneas is Dead, Long Live Phinneas.