SCS Vampires are Tough: or how Drizzt's entire party got massacred in the Catacombs

Reddbane

Here's something from my most recent Sword Coast Stratagems play-through. So I've entered the Catacombs with all my allies to defeat Bodhi, and as usual Drizzt and his friends show up. I figure, from experience, they're pretty powerful and can handle themselves, so I head south to deal with some other Vampires and their army of Dire Wolves and Rats. Then a couple of Ancient Vampires come from the north. Once I deal with them, I head to where I last left Drizzt and his friends. This is what's left of them:



Oh well. No use letting all that equipment going to waste!

Borek

TBH even w/o SCS they tend to get massacred, Drizzt is tough but the others fold like a Napkin and he'll just get swamped. I usually refuse any help (often kill Drizzt's party in advance lol), like many encounters it's easy to protect 1 character and with Prot.Magic Weapons and a charge of Sunray you can blap the entire 1st level pretty much Dunno how that would work with SCS though, not got around to trying it yet.

Reddbane

There are some Spell-casting Vampires too, SCS spellcasters! Also, I suppose none of Drizzt's fellows had any protection from level drain, and as SCS Ancient and Elder Vampires have a very high chance of draining a lot of things, Levels and Stats, I suppose they were drained to death while I was not looking.

That aside, this would be a hilarious end to the Novels. Out of nowhere, the entire cast gets massacred by a Vampire army in a quest that had no build up and which they had almost no prior vested interest in. Although that feels surprisingly accurate to how a lot real D&D sessions tend to end.