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<blockquote data-quote="Psikus" data-source="post: 4792323" data-attributes="member: 66049">Yet another option would be making monsters that gain an attack bonus (or other powerful effect, like imposing conditions on PCs) each turn they are not attacked. Just don't use stunning or immobilizing effects as punishment, or your players will enter a vicious circle.And, of course, my favourite alternative: Get the party into a dungeon full of gnomes! Fade Away (consider giving it as an at-will) is the ultimate tool against focus fire. And, of course, you have advantage of getting to kill dozens of the little nuisances <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />As I typed the previous paragraph, I thought of an interesting (evil) way to houserule Goblin Tactics: Let them have the shift as an interrupt, but trigger the second time they are attacked each turn. This is close to the original and fits the theme of the race, but it should force your players to change their tactics.As a final note, I don't think it's reasonable to use these kind of methods for every encounter - it will grow old soon. Something you can use much more frequently (as in, always) is having multiple marking soldiers in each monster group.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Psikus, post: 4792323, member: 66049"] Yet another option would be making monsters that gain an attack bonus (or other powerful effect, like imposing conditions on PCs) each turn they are not attacked. Just don't use stunning or immobilizing effects as punishment, or your players will enter a vicious circle. And, of course, my favourite alternative: Get the party into a dungeon full of gnomes! Fade Away (consider giving it as an at-will) is the ultimate tool against focus fire. And, of course, you have advantage of getting to kill dozens of the little nuisances ;) As I typed the previous paragraph, I thought of an interesting (evil) way to houserule Goblin Tactics: Let them have the shift as an interrupt, but trigger the second time they are attacked each turn. This is close to the original and fits the theme of the race, but it should force your players to change their tactics. As a final note, I don't think it's reasonable to use these kind of methods for every encounter - it will grow old soon. Something you can use much more frequently (as in, always) is having multiple marking soldiers in each monster group. [/QUOTE]

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