Even if Seth is fudging the escape rolls--which I don't think he is because when it has come up, I believe everyone but Frag has rolled for their escape checks. That said, the DCs might be a little unreasonable, given how spread thin we are. These things are more than powerful on their own. Avira by herself did like at least 15 damage to one of the large monster and that's not counting what Naia did before getting bound up. For a monster properly-stat for level 1s that thing should be dead @-@;<br/><br/>These things to be fair did ambush us, so we're spread thin and disorganized for a good reason. The small monsters that appeared drew Zitka's and Lyra attention away from the larger beasts, which didn't help.<br/><br/>The problem isn't starting at level one. The problem is that these monsters are very challenging for 1st level.