How did a bugbear do 16 damage to me?

[Bastila Shan]

He did 16 damage in 1 hit to my 18hp ranger, wtf is going on? Is that normal?

It was the bugbear assassin in the Druid town.

[love-less_beloved]

Bugbears are hecking strong. It's better to range attack them and strategise your attacks. If you watch the bugbear outside in the attack on the town, he does attacks above ten fairly regularly. The assassin is even worse because it will even poison its weapon.

[buzzruss]

Bugbears in 5e usually use a morning star for 2d8 + 2 - So up to 18 points of damage

[Hobocop]

The normal statblock for a generic bugbear from the books deals 2d8+2 damage on a hit. It's no joke.

[B Rad Mojad]

Basic bugbears in 5E do 2d8+2 damage on a hit, so it's quite possible for them to hit you for 16.

[Ratsplat]

Standard bugbears in dnd 5e can deal 2d8+2 damage with melee. Since he's just 1, and you have 4 characters likely, that is balanced.

[Bastila Shan]

Yea I was shooting arrows at him but he got me

[HopelessAndLost]

I didn't even damage the bugbear- my fighter missed with their attack and used shove- I pushed him off the cliff- killed priestess gut that way too (miss out on loot though)

[Baron Von Jagerbombër]

My First time playing I had a party whipe playing Dungeons and Dragons pen and paper against a bug bear back in like 1995

[Rommel]

That guy is stronger than the other bugbears{he's there to kill the chick with the coin}
I found that out the hard way my first play lol. This time around i snuck up on him and got a free hit on him before the battle started........was easy this time lol!

[SiFi]

I know they dont sound scary, but those fkers are not to be messed with.

Sounds like you are new to DnD, so the basic thing with how combat works is that you roll to hit, then you roll to do damage. In DnD, abilities that reduce damage are few, so when you are actually hit, it hurts. A lot.

Love it or hate it, the name of the game is "Dont get hit"

[Ratsplat]

Wait until they somehow let enemies sneak up on you and get first attacks!

[76561197988918266]

CC should be considered

[Aerondar]

Run from bugbears at level 1-2 with a low hp party.

[16 TIMES THE MIN REQUIREMENTS!!!]

Originally posted by Ratsplat:

Wait until they somehow let enemies sneak up on you and get first attacks!

It's good enough that they can have 10 enemies throwing exploding bottles and crap at your whole party already. So everyones on fire or has statuses every turn.

[joshuajardine]

lol the most powerful weapon in this game is shove. Killed more things with it then anything else