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Message: <blockquote data-quote="exile" data-source="post: 1594019" data-attributes="member: 20068">Hello all,   Long time lurker, rare poster, with my first new thread here. I'm going to be running a D&D 3.5 game in the next few months. Before I get to the meat of my question, I should provide a little background about my group. We are a group of 4-7 gamers in our 20s-early 30s. We play an assortment of games (D&D 3.5, D20 Star Wars, Mutants and Masterminds, non-D20 L5R) and rotate campaigns fairly frequently (every 4-8 weeks), but often return to popular campaigns with only a short time away.    Anyway, I'll be running a 3.5 D&D game for the group in the next few months. I will perhaps post details about the remainder of teh campaign in a separte thread, but my initail concern revolves aroudn teh lethality of the initial combat.   The first fight should see the PCs (4-7 1st level characters of unknown, as of yet, race and class- I suspect they will be quite competent though, as I will be allowing the 32 point buy method for ability scores), fighting alongside a dwarven patrol (consisting of dwarf fighter 3, dwarf cleric 1, and three dwarf warriors 1), and a human bard 4/ranger 4/harper agent 1.   Their opposition would include a goblin fighter 4 (who specializes in ranged combat), a goblin adept 3, and eight goblin warriors 1. All ten goblins are to be mounted on worgs.   Does this seem like a fair fight? Which side, if any, seems underpowered? What kind of tactics should both sides use? What can I do in terms of tactics to make the fight more even, without really changing the composition of either side? What can I do to let the PCs seem like the heroes of the combat?   Anyway, I'm looking forward to whatever help you have to offer.</blockquote>

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