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LOL. That's exactly what I tagged it with.

Good ideas, guys, thanks. I've since realised I should be grateful that these combats are only lasting three rounds. School kids can take a looong time to finish their turn.

So by that rationale I've decided to keep pushing higher CR encounters at them and simply have a contingency plan if I TPK.

For example, Dragon of Icespire Peak has the PCs sallying around Phandalin, saving one resident after the other from various threats (caused by the titular dragon). When the PCs fight the dragon they'll be 3rd-level versus the CR6 dragon. In the event of a TPK I can have all the residents they've saved turn up to save them. A sort of angry mob that can get the PCs back on their feet without stealing the limelight. It might even seem like a reward for the PCs heroics so far.

All this talk of turning into a frog in hot water makes me think of the how to cook a lobster/frog cliche.

Love the map!

Yeah, sorry. It took awhile to train my frog to draw it.

I wrapped up Dragon of Icespire Peak recently btw. It went well, no TPKs though three of four PCs dropped to 0 hp during the dragon encounter. I could've pushed to a TPK but they'd walloped the dragon with some big hits, the dwarf landing a max damage crit. Since we were running out of playtime anyway I had the dragon fly off with its tail severed and vowing revenge on the party. The titular dragon in the module is called Cryovain and the party came up with the nickname "Cryolame", which they thoroughly enjoyed hurling after it.

Next up they want to play Marvel Super Heroes. All-in-all, I thought Dragon of Icespire Peak was a solid module. I preferred the variety of monsters in Lost Mine of Phandelver but Icespire has a wider variety of encounters, including a dungeon that's mostly traps, and the dragon is the final fight whereas in Lost Mine it's a... actually I can't remember! Is it a drow??

Yes, ultimately a Drow, although lots of undead and a Spectator close to the end.

<compares vs. the real map>

It remarkably captures all the key details.

Precisely 5 feet. No more. No less. It's this remarkably square tube. Not like usual spelunking

In Lost mines it was a drow and a doppelganger

I seem to remember that Jaliera was just 5 feet tall but no physical details are on her sheet?

I was mostly making a joke about D&D geometry. Everybody is precisely 5 feet talll, but they can squeeze down to 2 1/2 feet if needed

Heh.

Sindar is about 5'8" or 5'9" in the right shoes.

Since I have 'medium' on my character sheet, I guess Bern is in the same range as Sindar <shrug>

Jaliera is 5'2" according to her original LMP character sheet. Assuming a year of experience, she's also only 17. Naughty Davroar!

Davroar is 18 years old, no naughtiness imo.

I don't seem to have any 'physical stats' for Bern <sigh>

Nope, just horny teenagers and the rest of the party saying "hey, get your own tiny hut!"

Oh man, tiny hut would've been handy at college! And goodberries!

You could provide them. I'll update them.

How 'bout Medium 5' 9”, 157# ??

Interesting. I went to look and you had it in your character sheet provided in the links on the SKT main page: Bern

According to the rules you can be 8 feet tall and weigh 500 lbs and still be "Medium".

Damn that is a big Medium!