OK. Just did Tabletop fight using Drow Fighter Battlemaster at Level 5 with Astarion, Shadowheart, Wyll, Halsin and Lae'zel. All at Level 5 with Halsin at Level 10. Used standard Hobgoblin Warlord for Ragzlin and threw 12 thugs in the fight with him to help defend him. 3 Cult Fanatics, 4 goblins, 1 goblin boss, and 4 Cultists. The fight was fun, but Ragzlin was still taken down relatively easily.

Granted, the PCs did VERY well and had magic items that helped. In the end, Halsin was full health, completely untouched with 83 HP. Astarion, Lae'zel and Wyll were also untouched. However, Vexir the Battlemaster and Shadowheart were hit pretty hard. Vexir had been reduced from 45 HP to 8 in one round by Ragzlin. He got 3 attacks with Faithbreaker and hit her twice. Shadowheart actually fell and almost died with 2 Failures before Halsin healed her.

Besides this, Shadowheart got a lucky hit on Ragzlin, a Critical Hit, AFTER using the spell Spirit Shroud, which gave her an extra 1d8 (2d8 with a Critical) and she picked up a Psionic Mace (homebrew item) from the Githyanki Fight earlier. So altogether, with mace and Spirit Shroud, she dealt 3d6+2d8+1 damage, effectively taking off almost 30 HP in one hit. If she had not done that, things might have gone a bit less in the favor of the PCs.

Also, Ragzlin failed his save, so after she hit him, he couldn't heal for a whole round. Astarion then used Sneak Attack and finished Ragzlin off (he'd already been reduced by about 50 HP previous to that by Vexir and Halsin, so once Shadowheart slammed him with the Critical Hit, Astarion was able to finish him. Oh yeah! And Astarion also got a Critical Hit with Sneak Attack, so he did like 2d8+6d6+2 damage for the final blow. 2 lucky hits really made the difference. Otherwise, there might have been more PC deaths).

Oh... and Halsin actually didn't do that much. It was mostly the PCs. He burst in through the doors and hit some cultists to thin the numbers. He only did a little damage to Ragzlin.

Last edited by GM4Him; 11/08/21 04:38 PM.