Sometimes planning is amazing. /u/scarr3g DnD: Roll for Initiative!

So, our group of six, 7th level, players were tasked to take down a Roc. We hired some fliers to take us there (they were ones bmthar hired us anyway), and overplanned the attack, with backups on top of backups.

End result: it never even got an attack in. It was stunned (thanks to the monk), saves were debuffed on it (to make the stunninf strikes easier), grappled (by an earth elemental from the druid) so it could fly away, and then a huge boulder was dropped on it (levitated by an Aarakocra player the pushed it over top). All the whilezthe rogue was sneak attacking it to smitherines, and the warlock was blasting away.

Absolute supremacy by our group.

We even snuck up on it, very successfully, thanks to a well placed “pass without trace” spell, and buffed by a bless.

When you can plan, do so. The first time we encounter this exact Roc, we had to run away, as it got the drop on us.

So, our group of six, 7th level, players were tasked to take down a Roc. We hired some fliers to take us there (they were ones bmthar hired us anyway), and overplanned the attack, with backups on top of backups.

End result: it never even got an attack in. It was stunned (thanks to the monk), saves were debuffed on it (to make the stunninf strikes easier), grappled (by an earth elemental from the druid) so it could fly away, and then a huge boulder was dropped on it (levitated by an Aarakocra player the pushed it over top). All the whilezthe rogue was sneak attacking it to smitherines, and the warlock was blasting away.

Absolute supremacy by our group.

We even snuck up on it, very successfully, thanks to a well placed “pass without trace” spell, and buffed by a bless.

When you can plan, do so. The first time we encounter this exact Roc, we had to run away, as it got the drop on us.