I 100% agree. Being able to take on such ridiculous odds so early is not very D&D. I can understand it if its some one off side game instead of a serious campaign, but this game is obviously trying to set up a campaign, so to any actual D&D player this just feels disingenuous and kind of insulting. As for the archdruid thing, i can kind of see them get away with it if it was just some arrogant druid running off at the mouth and not actually being an archdruid in reality. This would be especially feasible if they were a shadow druid. But they totally lost me at being able to take on mind flayers at level 2. Seriously? Mind flayers are feared across the multiverse and here are a small group of level 2 nobodies defeating one right out the gate. Its cool that the encounter is allowed to happen, what isn't cool is being able to defeat it so effortlessly.
