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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Victim" data-source="post: 2068043" data-attributes="member: 78">Well, the 40 Trolls is supposed to teach the PCs about hit and run attacks.  Also, redefining the battlefiend was very important - in my group, the PCs often used stoneshape to narrow certain caves so only a few could fight at a time.  Trolls were less dangerous back in the day.  But in many ways, it's supposed to be a shocker.  In book 1, the PCs fight low HD humanoids (including some classed humans) with a few higher level bosses.  Then they go from fighting a horde of weak guys to a horde of tough guys.  However, you could cut the number of trolls by half and still preserve the feel of the encounter since 3.X trolls are nasty.  Might be a good idea to do the same thing in other areas.  Plus it makes the game run faster.  The 40 orcs wasn't too bad.  It might have been more, although many of the orcs are effectively non-combatants (at least until pressed really hard).NB is designed for an especially large party.</blockquote>