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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Twig" data-source="post: 9756313" data-attributes="member: 31754">For experienced players you would need to ramp the difficulty up quite a bit. As an example, cave F, the Hobgoblin cave, is made a little smaller to fit on the battle map. There are only three rooms. One of the rooms, which had 9 hobgoblin combatants (4 male and 5 female, it made a difference back in the late 70s), which is now empty. The guard room had 6 hobgoblins, which now has 1 on guard and one ready to back her up. The last room had 3 hobgoblins, 2 of which would prepare an ambush while the third ran through a secret door, that is no longer there, to warn the hobgoblin boss. Now only has two hobgoblins that will join the other two if a fight breaks out. So there are a grand total of 4 hobgoblins in the "Hobgoblin Cave." That is a low encounter difficulty for 2nd level characters, which is the recommended level for that cave. There is also one Gelatinous Cube, which is also a low challenge. And, of course, the hobgoblins will just talk to you and ask you to leave.So yeah, you will need to ramp up the difficulty for experienced players. I am planning to run it for my nephews, and I am trying to decide how to adjust it for them. I don't want to run a game where they go around saying "Good morning!" to all the cave neighbors and going back home.</blockquote>