DM makes all encounters unbeatable /u/Answerseeker57 DnD: Roll for Initiative!

Me again, same DM as the last post I made here (if you happened to see that).

I’ve played with this guy 3 times now, 2 of which were kinda like a session 0 but not really because we didn’t get info of the campaign but players got to make thier character and were thrown into battle to learn the mechanics. The 3rd session was better, he split the 10 players group into 2 parties, my group chose to play The Curse of Stradh.

Anyways, we leveled up to lvl 2, and then were thrown into a battle with 2 werewolfs and 3 wolfs that later were 9. The party consists on 3 monks, 1 cleric and a ranger, one of the monks says “leave me the big ones, you take care of the wolfs” so we began the fight… Round 3, one of the monks was down, no one was doing any damage (except for me, the cleric) and 2 more wolves appeared, the next round, the monk that said “I got this” was out too but rolled a nat 20. On my turned I asked the party “are we running or do we still fight?” Everyone said “well, idk” so I guiding bolt a werewolf and stayed were I was. Next round, 4 more wolves appeared. We ended up running.

This DM, in the 3 session I’ve played with him, has let players roll to know how many enemies appear, all the battles have been a “you must run or die”, yesterday, when we were “safe” one of the monks told him “bro, that was insane” ans the DM said “bro, that fight was for a first level party”.

I know I shouldn’t do this, but I got home, grabbed my DM Guide (which I have because I learned to DM for my friends), and made the math for the battle, a party with a treshold of 1000 on deadly was fighting a group of monsters over 4000.

Maybe I’m wrong and no DM’s use that table to planned their battles but also I know my DM doesn’t have the DM Guide because he told us, also, he’s being DM for 10 years, but for once, I want to actually fight in a fight and have the chance to win, now I’m just scared of getting into a battle and die because we weren’t fast enoght to leave.

I also don’t know the Curse of Stradh, maybe it’s supposed to be this hard from the beginning.

Me again, same DM as the last post I made here (if you happened to see that).

I’ve played with this guy 3 times now, 2 of which were kinda like a session 0 but not really because we didn’t get info of the campaign but players got to make thier character and were thrown into battle to learn the mechanics. The 3rd session was better, he split the 10 players group into 2 parties, my group chose to play The Curse of Stradh.

Anyways, we leveled up to lvl 2, and then were thrown into a battle with 2 werewolfs and 3 wolfs that later were 9. The party consists on 3 monks, 1 cleric and a ranger, one of the monks says “leave me the big ones, you take care of the wolfs” so we began the fight… Round 3, one of the monks was down, no one was doing any damage (except for me, the cleric) and 2 more wolves appeared, the next round, the monk that said “I got this” was out too but rolled a nat 20. On my turned I asked the party “are we running or do we still fight?” Everyone said “well, idk” so I guiding bolt a werewolf and stayed were I was. Next round, 4 more wolves appeared. We ended up running.

This DM, in the 3 session I’ve played with him, has let players roll to know how many enemies appear, all the battles have been a “you must run or die”, yesterday, when we were “safe” one of the monks told him “bro, that was insane” ans the DM said “bro, that fight was for a first level party”.

I know I shouldn’t do this, but I got home, grabbed my DM Guide (which I have because I learned to DM for my friends), and made the math for the battle, a party with a treshold of 1000 on deadly was fighting a group of monsters over 4000.

Maybe I’m wrong and no DM’s use that table to planned their battles but also I know my DM doesn’t have the DM Guide because he told us, also, he’s being DM for 10 years, but for once, I want to actually fight in a fight and have the chance to win, now I’m just scared of getting into a battle and die because we weren’t fast enoght to leave.

I also don’t know the Curse of Stradh, maybe it’s supposed to be this hard from the beginning.