u/Boring-Second-5737

The party was tasked with protecting this city for a festival and its preparation when a purple wyrm strikes after being agitated by these anarchists (Some of you may know this adventure but I changed some parts.)

The players arrive at the city square to be extra sets of eyes for the guards. The game was moving a bit slow so I decided to escalate things by having a member of the anarchists group start a fight before their big staging to give the players a chance to stop them. The fighbardlock casts mind spike on a cloaked hooded figure trying to stop his ally from picking a fight (since he's currently not in attire, that being a full cloaked outfit and an efreeti mask.)

The hooded figure and the man split immediately after this spell thinking its another faction attacking them. The hooded figure runs straight into a building like stall where the party runs after him nearly killing him before a fire ball is shot through the makeshift door allowing a distraction for his ally. HOWEVER, this only draws the purple wyrm closer causing the entire tent to be swallowed along with a woman inside, 2 guards on the way to the commotion, and the fighbardlock.

The sound caused a massive catastrophe as people scream and run away from the square, the issue is the square was so tight and filled with people trying to escape i kept the entire map as difficult terrain and on 20 and 10 initiative order the players have to make a strength save to avoid being knocked over. The DC is 19, eventually after taking multiple rounds of nuisance damage for tier 3 players (4d10) three dragonborn party members start flying up to avoid being crushed.

The party member inside is unable to get out until the wizard uses eyebite to put the purple wyrm to sleep. I let the Fighbardlock make three consecutive checks one check equaling one action to get past the purple wyrms ridges of muscle. DC 19 since its heavy and large.

No one tried to help him as they were trying to stop the anarchists (they didnt know that the anarchists were making the buzzing sounds only that there were distinct loud buzzing noises coming from around the square).

The fighbardlock eventually gets out but prone and difficult terrain where one cube = 10 ft. So they couldn't move.

Eventually the purple wyrm crit twice on one player spewing acid into the same spot twice and taking a huge chunk of flesh out of one the dragonbornes. With a finger of death, disintegrate and magic missle they were finally able to defeat the purple wyrm. Before magic missle did the last strike the player was swallowed again being seen as easy food since he was downed from the environmental effects. The purple wyrm dissolves him completely in its stomach turning him to bones and the party defeats the purple wyrm with magic missle as it tries to burrow and escape.

Killed my first CHARACTERRR and feel like garbage, lol.

Its flavor AND mechanics have been almost completely removed. It looks and feels horrible to play.

Why is the level 11 feature pure garbage now?

I'm level 11 currently.

I'd like to use a longsword and pistol.

I want to do all these cool descriptions but I feel like I may just be wasting time and ruining peoples nights (AL).