A level 1 goblin was able to mortally wound Ketheric Thorm

[Shampoo]

And he is like level 11…

How do power levels work in this game?

[Solomon Kane]

Ketheric allows and lets the goblin do that, because he does not care, Level 1 or 100, come, give it your best shot, see what happens.

[Lackluster]

If it's anything like the tabletop, if the numbers are what they are they do what they've done.

There's no rubber banding/DR happening. If a target's AC is 21, and a level one character rolls above the target number (every character has a 5 percent chance to hit no matter what) then they roll their damage die. If the damage is greater than their current health their dead or unconscious. In another RPG they may be a percentage of damage that's taken off a target who's at a greater level, like how in the Division you can shoot millions of bullets into a mob who's much higher level and do no damage, but that's not how D&D handles it.

[zacharyb]

The level 1 goblin rolled a Nat 20.

[The Seraph of Tomorrow]

Mostly arbitrary, where if you beat the AC of a character you do damage.

At most that attack would do 1d10+2 dmg + crit.

[Anglel]

Originally posted by Shampoo:

And he is like level 11…

How do power levels work in this game?

are you talking about the cutscene on the tower throne? because like theres an explanation in it

[Petrussi]

Dude, i was thinking... What if we kill nightsong BEFORE this scene? Then a lvl 1 Goblin will really be the murder of Katheric ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Thorn?? Someone made this? I'm Almost going for another run just to try

[The Yeen Queen]

Originally posted by Shampoo:

And he is like level 11…

How do power levels work in this game?

A toddler with a knife and a lot of good luck ( or bad luck on the other person's part ) can kill a level 20. :p Don't matter what level you are, a butter knife driven into the right spot on the throat will kill you.

Plus, he's literally unkillable at that point. It's probably been decades since the notion of defending himself against an attack has even crossed his mind. Apparently doesn't even feel pain, that was sent to Aylin too.

[PeltzoDelzo]

Originally posted by Petrussi:

Dude, i was thinking... What if we kill nightsong BEFORE this scene? Then a lvl 1 Goblin will really be the murder of Katheric ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Thorn?? Someone made this? I'm Almost going for another run just to try

The game litteraly tells you to finish your quests before entering shadowfell. After that the game jumps straight to the final battle.

[Boss]

AC and HP in DnD are an abstraction of your fighting ability and survivability, assuming you're trying not to get killed. Even if you "hit" a creature in a fight, it doesn't necessarily mean you wounded it. HP represents everything from luck to your ability to power through injuries. It's suggested that creatures don't even show any sings of physical damage until they drop below 50% HP.

So Ketheric just didn't care

[Giganx]

Ketheric has over 100hp; level 1 gobbies swinging and throwing weapons do about 10 damage tops. The presentation makes it look like Ketheric only survived the attack because of Nightsong, which is kind of silly.

It's a cinematic whose sole purpose is to demonstrate his immortality, though, so you go with it.

[The Yeen Queen]

Originally posted by Boss:

AC and HP in DnD are an abstraction of your fighting ability and survivability, assuming you're trying not to get killed. Even if you "hit" a creature in a fight, it doesn't necessarily mean you wounded it. HP represents everything from luck to your ability to power through injuries. It's suggested that creatures don't even show any sings of physical damage until they drop below 50% HP.

So Ketheric just didn't care

Side tangent: One thing that Lord of the Rings Online did that I like: You don't have a "life bar" in a fight, that's your "morale". Get beaten enough and you're demoralized and forced to retreat lore-wise. You do take various debuffs from taking hits to reflect actual damage, though. But they don't have to explain how you can come back from the dead repeatedly, which is always a hangup in MMOs.

[The Yeen Queen]

Originally posted by Giganx:

Ketheric has over 100hp; level 1 gobbies swinging and throwing weapons do about 10 damage tops. The presentation makes it look like Ketheric only survived the attack because of Nightsong, which is kind of silly.

It's a cinematic whose sole purpose is to demonstrate his immortality, though, so you go with it.

There are RAW mechanics around killing a target outright without depleting all their health to do it. Such as if the target is incapacitated or not making any effort to defend themselves.

[Giganx]

Originally posted by Night Foxx:

Originally posted by Giganx:

Ketheric has over 100hp; level 1 gobbies swinging and throwing weapons do about 10 damage tops. The presentation makes it look like Ketheric only survived the attack because of Nightsong, which is kind of silly.

It's a cinematic whose sole purpose is to demonstrate his immortality, though, so you go with it.

There are RAW mechanics around killing a target outright without depleting all their health to do it. Such as if the target is incapacitated or not making any effort to defend themselves.

I assume that HP represents your threshold for damage, while things like AC and saves are your ability to actively make effort to avoid damage.

[Arcade Bumstead]

The goblin only has three hit points. Please don't swing your sword, as he will die in just one attack. He won't drop anything good anyway.

[Phoenix]

Originally posted by Petrussi:

Dude, i was thinking... What if we kill nightsong BEFORE this scene? Then a lvl 1 Goblin will really be the murder of Katheric ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Thorn?? Someone made this? I'm Almost going for another run just to try

Already done this, read ahead if you want to know

already done this, the whole thing changes, that cutscene doesn't play out, it basically skips to an entire combat encounter with moonrise and kethric ontop of the tower and those goblins already dead, so the cutscene basically played out without you being the, just have to fight your way to the top of the tower