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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RealAlHazred" data-source="post: 6728816" data-attributes="member: 25818">Originally posted by AaronOfBarbaria:I like the encounter design there, iserith. The monsters have a singular goal that doesn't even involve direct conflict against the PCs, and the PCs have a goal that could be accomplished in a (figurative) dozen ways besides killing all the bad guys. Last time my players were in a position similar to this, the blocked up the connecting trenches and filled what you call the front-line trench with burning pitch and oil, and used a squad of archers to pick off any of the enemy brave enough to jump the flames, buying them the time needed to invisibly sneak across the flame line to the enemy leader, kill him, and break troop morale. They had also thought about using their invisibility spells to turn some spears on hand into traps by positioning them so that enemies would likely run full-speed into them without seeing them until it was too late and impaling themselves, but they decided that they didn't have enough invisibility spells to cover enough area that way.</blockquote>