It's quite rare, but it does happen... perhaps there's a limit on how many enemies can be there at a time, or have had appeared in a single fight. I also encountered the Mother Dragons for the first time on the tenth floor - at first I had thought the FOE patterns would be similar throughout the game of visible slow-moving monsters, but now, with them sneaking up on you during fights, "A new monster has entered the fray!" has become the scariest thing ever. And I've learned to keep the party's back away from the walls, because otherwise, you're just dead.
However, because of gradual improvement, just an hour ago I found myself able to defeat five of them in a row as they slowly crawled over the room to get to me and join a single fight, with only a slight panic. Some of this is thanks to things I'm trying out with subclasses (as I might as well experiment if I'm going to retire people eventually) - having extra Prince actions on the Farmer is quite wonderful, as it only takes a turn to put Prevent Order on the entire party, and you have redundancy in two Royal Veils, so that even if one of the two takes a knock to the shoulder, they'll be back at full health and boosting the party by the next turn.
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Date: 2011-01-02 12:38 am (UTC)However, because of gradual improvement, just an hour ago I found myself able to defeat five of them in a row as they slowly crawled over the room to get to me and join a single fight, with only a slight panic. Some of this is thanks to things I'm trying out with subclasses (as I might as well experiment if I'm going to retire people eventually) - having extra Prince actions on the Farmer is quite wonderful, as it only takes a turn to put Prevent Order on the entire party, and you have redundancy in two Royal Veils, so that even if one of the two takes a knock to the shoulder, they'll be back at full health and boosting the party by the next turn.