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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tzarevitch" data-source="post: 142290" data-attributes="member: 1792">No offense, but I think you need to think your encounters out a little better. There is no way a 6th level party should be beating the daylights out of whatever they encounter like you say. There are only two PCs with any form of Spot in class. I can't imagine how they could spot an ambush before they fall into it (unless you are allowing them too-easy access to skill enhancing magic items). The max spot that group should have (not including Wis or any feats or racial abilities) is +9. As I recall in the DMG, foes waiting in ambush do not roll Hide checks. They take their bonus to Hide +25 because they have had time to set up (See section on Spot in the DMG). It sounds like you may be presenting the PCs with bad guys right under their guns. Inferior foes need to use range and cover. Try a a group of 20 Dextrous 1nd lvl goblin brigands (fighters) with Rapid shot (and its prerequisite) and shortbows should be able to do a lot of damage to them.Place the goblins in the trees  or in prepared holes that are too small for the medium-sized PCs to follow them into or on a high rock (anywhere that inhibits movement and provides cover and in a position where the PCs can't charge them and have their mobility impaired). Make sure the goblins slather their arrows with the cheapest useful poison. If at all possible, the goblins should try not to get any closer than charge range (60 feet for normal people). Spread the goblins out so that one fireball can't get more than 2, and make sure that they aren't so close that they can be cleaved or whirlwinded. If the PCs charge a goblin. He should do nothing but run to the next cover location (so as not to draw an attack of opportunity). Try not to use one big foe against them unless that foe has VERY good defenses. 6 on 1 is lousy odds for nearly anything. With regard to traps, only two PCs have evasion. Use traps that save for 1/2 or ones that make an attack roll. Tzarevitch</blockquote>

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