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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 1290351" data-attributes="member: 198">The situation: The PC party consists of six 7th level characters, plus a pair of animal companions. All of the PCs have trained warhorses. This group is more powerful than average for their level (high stats and around 25,000 gp in magic each, which is higher than the DMG suggests for their level). They will be traveling along a well-used trail through an area of plains on horseback. The terrain is too flat to provide advantages of elevation and nearby vegetation has been cleared away from the trail (itself about 15 ft wide), giving at least a 50 foot flat area on either side. Your mission, if you should choose to accept it…Put together an ambush by a group of four NPCs to take down this PC party. Restrictions:1) NPCs must be 6th lvl each. Only PHB races and classes (no paladins) are available. No repetition of classes (so no 4 evil druids with 4 animal companions). No PrCs.2) NPCs have 6,000 gp worth of equipment each. All spells available through magic items must be of a level that the NPC can cast (i.e. no wand of fireballs at 10th lvl with 1 charge).3) NPCs each have 76 pts to divide between their statistics (e.g. one might have Str 16, Dex 12, Con 16, Int 10, Wis 12, Cha 10). [Edit: This is only for reference purposes. I'm not expecting anyone to actually stat out NPCs for this.]Rules: 3.5 core rules. One relevant house rule - the 2nd level “buff” spells (Bull’s Strength et al) last 10 mins/lvl. Assume that NPCs can have spells of durations 1 min/lvl and longer pre-cast. The NPCs, however, will not have enough of a warning to be able to create physical barriers (pit traps, etc.) without the use of magic.So is it possible to defeat this group in this situation (and with the above restrictions) with four 6th lvl characters? I think it is, and have a group planned, but I’m interested to see what all the RBDM minds of ENWorld can come up with.Have at it…</blockquote>

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