SPOILERS below! Didn't fit in the title.
Hey, not sure how exactly to word this. Does anyone else get the feeling that story encounters are extremely unbalanced and unfair? I'm at level 3 right now and none of the story beats are accessible to me. I came across the Phase Spider Matriarch, absolutely annihilated me. I tried going to find the Githyanki patrol, but they're all a level above me and basically instantly destroy my party. I stumbled across Auntie's encounter, and that's definitely a no. When all else failed I made my way to the goblin camp and managed to kill the priestess boss, but only just barely. When I saw how many enemies there were around Razlig's room, I knew I was in for trouble. I don't know if you can avoid that fight with the persuasion check after he finds out you killed the Mind Flayer, but on my two attempts I failed it. To then be immediately swarmed by like 5 archers, a ranger who summons a worg, two gobbos who won't stop firebombing me, and a boss equal to my level who has action surge, almost one-shot my fighter with a normal attack and has a shockwave that pushes everyone into the spider pit where they die of fall damage. Am I missing something here? It's pretty frustrating that I can't progress any part of the story. Are there enough sidequests that I'm missing that could get me to level 4? If not, I think there's an issue with encounter balancing and action economy.
