As a recent example, the party are facing a horde of yeti, and in their second assault, the yeti had build fortifications from old furniture to defend against them. The party unleashed 2 fireballs into the "huddled behind the barricades" yeti, and cakewalked the encounter.
What did I learn: It makes sense for some enemies to be ill prepared for a fighting party. There was no reason for them to spread out before they knew that fireballs existed, and the party loved it (the wizard in particular) because they got to be effective.
The next time they faced yeti, the party had tricks lined up - fire to make them weaker, and they once again cakewalked the encounter (though one got thrown down the mountain slope, which took some damage onto them).
This time I noticed they seemed to be a little underwhelmed, so I learnt there that the novelty of a poorly prepared enemy is a fleeting thing, so the next time they fight the Yeti, they are going to have learnt a little on how to not die so quickly!
I’m just wondering from some other dm’s about times the party absolutely destroyed your encounters and what you learned from
As a recent example, the party are facing a horde of yeti, and in their second assault, the yeti had build fortifications from old furniture to defend against them. The party unleashed 2 fireballs into the "huddled behind the barricades" yeti, and cakewalked the encounter.
What did I learn: It makes sense for some enemies to be ill prepared for a fighting party. There was no reason for them to spread out before they knew that fireballs existed, and the party loved it (the wizard in particular) because they got to be effective.
The next time they faced yeti, the party had tricks lined up - fire to make them weaker, and they once again cakewalked the encounter (though one got thrown down the mountain slope, which took some damage onto them).
This time I noticed they seemed to be a little underwhelmed, so I learnt there that the novelty of a poorly prepared enemy is a fleeting thing, so the next time they fight the Yeti, they are going to have learnt a little on how to not die so quickly!
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