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<blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 3074257" data-attributes="member: 11574">At those levels, I find the encounter's outcome is driven more by the roll of the dice than by anything else. 2 weeks ago a party of 6 1st levels were nearly TPK'd by 2 goblins and their pet badger, because the party couldn't roll worth a spit.Last week they killed 25 goblins (total, not all at one time) and only once had a character fall unconsious.Cover plays a more important roll at lower levels as well, 1 kobold with 3/4 cover shooting the party with a shortbow while 2 of it's buddies try to keep the party at bay is much more challenging than 3 kobolds with daggers facing off against the party.Terrain as well, 3 kobolds up in trees firing at the party make the encounter tougher than 3 kobolds charging the party on the open road. I don't think you're doing anything wrong with your encounters, mortality is much higher at the low levels anyway.Keep on gaming!&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hairy Minotaur, post: 3074257, member: 11574"] At those levels, I find the encounter's outcome is driven more by the roll of the dice than by anything else. 2 weeks ago a party of 6 1st levels were nearly TPK'd by 2 goblins and their pet badger, because the party couldn't roll worth a spit. Last week they killed 25 goblins (total, not all at one time) and only once had a character fall unconsious. Cover plays a more important roll at lower levels as well, 1 kobold with 3/4 cover shooting the party with a shortbow while 2 of it's buddies try to keep the party at bay is much more challenging than 3 kobolds with daggers facing off against the party. Terrain as well, 3 kobolds up in trees firing at the party make the encounter tougher than 3 kobolds charging the party on the open road. I don't think you're doing anything wrong with your encounters, mortality is much higher at the low levels anyway. Keep on gaming! :) [/QUOTE]

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