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<blockquote data-quote="Greylock" data-source="post: 2251908" data-attributes="member: 19056">All this confuses me.&nbsp;In one game I'm in we, the party, ran into a situation where we had to get past, defeat, otherwise take out a cave complex of hobgoblins, their chieftains and an Ogre. They were keeping tabs on us and knew we were coming. If we'd met them head on, we'd have been toast (low-level game), as we'd already found out on our first encounter.&nbsp;So, we set up a situation, an ambush. We &quot;acquired&quot; their signal horn, found a suitable set of hills, placed our ranged guys in trees, placed our fighter/thug in the open ground, but hidden, and had our ranger tooting away on the horn, placed to the rear but ready to mop up.&nbsp;In time, we managed to slaughter the hobgoblin tribe. At pretty damned significant loss to the party (we mourned our Fighters early death.)&nbsp;So, we changed an encounter that we knew was hard,&nbsp; to one with significant advantage,&nbsp; even though we suffered grievously.&nbsp;Half XP for the encounter because of the favorable set-up?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greylock, post: 2251908, member: 19056"] All this confuses me. In one game I'm in we, the party, ran into a situation where we had to get past, defeat, otherwise take out a cave complex of hobgoblins, their chieftains and an Ogre. They were keeping tabs on us and knew we were coming. If we'd met them head on, we'd have been toast (low-level game), as we'd already found out on our first encounter. So, we set up a situation, an ambush. We "acquired" their signal horn, found a suitable set of hills, placed our ranged guys in trees, placed our fighter/thug in the open ground, but hidden, and had our ranger tooting away on the horn, placed to the rear but ready to mop up. In time, we managed to slaughter the hobgoblin tribe. At pretty damned significant loss to the party (we mourned our Fighters early death.) So, we changed an encounter that we knew was hard, to one with significant advantage, even though we suffered grievously. Half XP for the encounter because of the favorable set-up? [/QUOTE]

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