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Hot take: Strongest creatures in the setting shouldn't just be clowned by PCs with no resistance.
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Inspired by frustrating conversation I had. For those curious, that was the statblock of Caine, father of the vampires.
The number of times my cleric/sorcerer has had to revivify the rest of his party…
If you ain't dying, you ain't trying.
It is actually bad game design in the sense that there really isn't a decent mechanic to escape monsters.
5.0 orcs, for example, had double the speed of the average PC with their dumbass free move action.
The solution is rolling disengage as a series of skill checks (like World of Darkness would...) but then you have to explain how, exactly, a dude in full plate escapes a dragon.
Pre-firearm plate armor was pretty lightweight, lots of videos of people running and rolling and climbing in it. Is D&D supposed to only be like jousting armor where you can't move? I've never been clear on this and I'm more willing to look like a twerp about it on here than with a DM in person