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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerakSpielman" data-source="post: 1231924" data-attributes="member: 7464">Whenever possible I have the creatures act believably. Unfortunatly, this emphasis on verisimlitude can easily wipe out low-level parties.  My new campaign (1st level party of 6) is focusing mainly on role-playing encounters and non-intelligent monsters until the characters get a bit more experienced, but the party did get ambushed by goblins once in a random encounter. 8 goblins (the leader of whom was a 3rd level rogue, but he was too cowardly to do anything but shoot from a distance). Attacking from surprise with crossbows. The goblins assumed that with superior numbers and a show of force they could rob the characters without a fight. Of course, the PCs would have none of it and attacked. That was a really tough battle, but the players seemed to enjoy it. Anyway, the gobs used real tactics: Surprise, surround the party, call for surrender (best to win a fight without losing any warriors), use missile weapons, and flee when things start to go wrong. But this was a small raiding party. The 2 orcs attacking a well-armed party mentioned above... well... in my mind it woud never happen. They would spy on the party, and if they saw an opening, one of them would run out to get the others while the other kept an eye on the party's movements.  As far as I'm concerned, no low-level party should expect to take on a lair of intelligent creatrues are win the fight without really good tactics and reconnaisance. Perhaps your objective can be achieved without the use of direct force.</blockquote>

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