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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5835489" data-attributes="member: 4937">This is historically inaccurate on more levels than I wish to count, and do to board rules I'm unable to address the problem.As for arrow loops, the spot DC on kobold hiding behind an arrow loop is about 22, and the effective AC is about a 23.   This is much better than the kobold facing the PC's one on one in the open, but typically still significantly favors the PC's.   This is particularly true because typically, arrow slits and murder holes act as effective choke points that limit how many kobolds are actually able to attack the PC's at one time - effectively negating the advantage that they might have in numbers.   PC archers will still hit a 23 AC nearly half the time, while the kobolds will still probably need a 20 to hit.   You want to run the numbers on how many kobolds behind arrow slits will die before the PC's need to retreat if the kobolds continiously man 4 arrow slits?   The PC's are more likely to run out of arrows than hit points.Again, arrow loops - unless there are a lot of them overlooking a large room so that many kobolds can fire at once - are such an inferior tactic that you are better off massing the whole tribe as distributed force of skirmishers on an open plain just so you can roll the 20 or so 20's per round.   And if there are a lot of them overlooking a room, the PC's will probably not be surprised (because at least one of the kobolds will have rolled a 1' on his hide check, and gives the rest of the force away) and will simply retreat and/or employ some counter measure.  In 4th edition, the situation is - if anything - even worse, because the 4e rules for healing surges and long rests make it just about impossible for the kobolds to win a war of attrition - which is essentially the tactic you are suggesting.</blockquote>

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