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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 6066757" data-attributes="member: 463">I think by far the biggest factor in endangering the PCs is deceptively dangerous terrain. Of the battles where I've slaughtered the PCs, the majority have been due to terrain. Three that come to mind:1) Thirty Orcs are camped in a big cavern with a 10' cliff as its western edge. The group of 6 PCs had to climb the cliff and clamber up to attack the orcs. This disorganised and scattered them as waves of orcs attacked. PCs were isolated in small groups and defeated in detail.2) Black dragon Nightshade is in a sewer cistern, ingress via a pipe with fast flowing water that opens out with a 5' drop down into a shallow runnel on the west side of the cistern. One PC scouted ahead, climbing onto the wakway at the edge of the cistern. He spotted the dragon, shot at it, it attacked.Most of the PCs were wading around in water that prevented shifting, clustering at the mouth of the pipe where the dragon could breathe on them, trying to clamber from pipe to walkway, unable to support each other effectively.3) Similar to (2), but it was a red dragon in an underground cavern bisected by a river, with a slippery bridge crossing it. The PCs had to cross the bridge to rescue the damsel chained to the far side, but the player of the party Rogue (Acrobatics, Thievery to pick locks) had not turned up that day... the dragon ate  well that night.</blockquote>