I Smell a Rat impossible to beat [spoilers]

MeddlingMonk · 06-19-2019, 10:00 PM

Was just running my group through "I Smell a Rat", and they ran into the Peshkali, which made mince-meat out of them.

Does anyone have any suggestions for nerfing it? It seemed way too powerful with 6 attacks per turn that almost never miss and do 3d+3 cutting damage each! The players knew they needed to cripple the arms to defeat it, but failed to even cripple a single limb before the front-line fighter was dropped to negative HP (on the second round of combat), at which point it was impossible for the mage & cleric to survive.

This was a small party of only 3 268 pt. adventurers (they completed another adventure first), so perhaps we just need a larger party?

06-19-2019, 10:00 PM	#1
MeddlingMonk Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Albuquerque, NM	I Smell a Rat impossible to beat [spoilers] Was just running my group through "I Smell a Rat", and they ran into the Peshkali, which made mince-meat out of them. Does anyone have any suggestions for nerfing it? It seemed way too powerful with 6 attacks per turn that almost never miss and do 3d+3 cutting damage each! The players knew they needed to cripple the arms to defeat it, but failed to even cripple a single limb before the front-line fighter was dropped to negative HP (on the second round of combat), at which point it was impossible for the mage & cleric to survive. This was a small party of only 3 268 pt. adventurers (they completed another adventure first), so perhaps we just need a larger party?