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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 1928885" data-attributes="member: 198">A simple thing I focus on, which my players/PCs often fail to do, is controlling positions on the battlefield. If you can prevent enemies from combining their forces while you are able to do so, half the battle is won. If the NPCs include spellcasters, they often use spells which affect the PCs' mobility and vision rather than going directly after their hit points. If there are few or no spellcasters, I often use trip attacks and readied actions to mess up the PCs' movement. Grappling works well if there are more NPCs than PCs, or if one has a PC cut off from the others for a round. If there are more PCs than NPCs, the latter should keep moving (even if just a 5 ft step) to make sure that some PCs are giving them cover from others.In the combat I mentioned in my first post, the battle took place in the inn the PCs were staying at. The two NPCs were a 7th lvl cleric (trickery and and a hobgoblin fighter (first spiked chain-wielder I ever used).  The cleric started off by casting doomtide (from CD) - which creates an area of darkness which can also daze those who step into it - in such a manner as to divide the hallway the PCs were in and force them to either split up or risk stepping into the doomtide. Then he focused on incapacitating those who got to the NPC pair first (using the command spell to get someone to urinate really messes him up <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />). The fighter stuck by his side and used the chain's reach to keep tripping and disarming enemies who threatened his boss. Once some of the PCs did get close and do some damage, the cleric used a confusion spell to seriously hamper their co-ordination.</blockquote>

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