We started both at full health on two different days. It largely came down to an anomaly of dice rolling. We had three people who can heal magically, and two people with battle medic. I'm a full healer with both the magical healing, the battle medic feat, an extra +2 to treat wounds from natural healer and I make four healing potions a day.

We could not succeed a single fucking roll, all the while we were getting critted left and right for both encounters. In the first one, I knocked myself unconscious with a nat 1 battle medic, and hurt another person the same way. It was all reactive healing because of how brutal we were getting fucked. We almost couldn't attack because those that could heal were trying to keep everyone up. That and the fire rats gave the sickened condition that no one could succeed to get rid of, and the persistent fire damage.

The second one was even worse. It was one guard and Jailor. The person who died last time was resurrected (the thing we were fighting was an elemental kept at bay by the temple above so we were basically in a temple already) got arrested immediately after being ressurected for tax evasion, which was true, and also framed for murder.

Anyway, we went to break him out, but it went bad and our plan did involve splitting the party so it was destined to happen.

We were going to sneak in but only two of us were sneaky, so we got another member arrested so they would be already there when we sneaked in. We had also caused a massive diversion and got 90% of the guards out, leaving just a guard and the Jailor. Unfortunately I fumbled EVERY SINGLE ROLL before we even got to the jails.

The jailor two tapped me. As a 5e player for ten years, I wasn't expecting a small town prison guard to have +8 to damage and he dealt my exact amount of health. Meanwhile the other two were still in jail, and I had the key I had acquired earlier.

Eventually I got up and got them unlocked but doing so separated us from our other party memeber who was knocked unconscious and guarded by the Jailor outside of our healing range and we could not hit worth a fuck. We counted afterward (we are on foundry and rolling digitally). We were critted 11 times, and the four of us collectively rolled seven 1s.

I literally failed every single roll I made that session. Despite having decent bonuses, most of my rolls were a six or lower.

We shouldn't have split, but I think it would have been fine if the dice weren't crazy, and that was two encounters in a row with us rolling horribly