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<blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 4559656" data-attributes="member: 3586"><p>I was happily running my Castle Zagyg campaign on Friday night, when the PCs wandered off the map into a section of the dungeons that I'd designed. We'd been a bit combat-light in recent sessions, so I made sure they were stocked with plenty of monsters they could fight.</p><p></p><p>First, the group encountered some goblins. <em>They talked to them!</em> I'm really enjoying how this group worked. Soon they learnt about "Webfoot", a dangerous scourge of the goblins which they'd pay the PCs to kill. Ooh... soon the PCs were being escorted through the goblin lair to the tunnels on the other side where Webfoot resided.</p><p></p><p>(Oops - hadn't designed Webfoot yet. I reskinned a young black dragon and we were fine).</p><p></p><p>However, the group, treacherous bunch that they are, were making note of the goblin numbers so that they could take them out on the way back... The group is 5 PCs of levels 2 and 3.</p><p></p><p>Then they reached one of the main goblin caves, in which two dozen goblins were doing what goblins do when not fighting adventurers. Adam asked me if they were all minions. I'm pretty free with that information, and told him about 20 were minions.</p><p></p><p>Nate and Adam looked at each other. 20 Minions? Yeah, that was still a threat. 4-5 minions? Not really. But 20? Ooh, boy!</p><p></p><p>It's nice to get that reaction from your more headstrong players. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Anyway, in a couple of hours I'm off to my Sunday campaign as we continue through <em>H2 Thunderspire Labyrinth</em>. We've just reached the Well of Demons section (so I guess we have 3-4 sessions left of this adventure). Anyway, just checking monster numbers:</p><p></p><p>W1: 4 monsters</p><p>W2: 7 monsters</p><p>W3: 9 monsters</p><p>W4: 4 monsters</p><p>W6: 3 monsters</p><p>W7: 5 monsters</p><p>W8: 6 monsters</p><p>W9: 1 solo monster</p><p>W10: 6 monsters</p><p></p><p>Incredibly, no minions! (I think there's only one encounter in the adventure with minions). From what I'm seeing of the published adventures, 3-7 monsters are pretty much the norm. There are time when I want the shackles to be broken, and minions to rain from the sky... let's have 30 monsters in a single encounter and see what happens!</p><p></p><p>But perhaps that's just me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Cheers!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MerricB, post: 4559656, member: 3586"] I was happily running my Castle Zagyg campaign on Friday night, when the PCs wandered off the map into a section of the dungeons that I'd designed. We'd been a bit combat-light in recent sessions, so I made sure they were stocked with plenty of monsters they could fight. First, the group encountered some goblins. [i]They talked to them![/i] I'm really enjoying how this group worked. Soon they learnt about "Webfoot", a dangerous scourge of the goblins which they'd pay the PCs to kill. Ooh... soon the PCs were being escorted through the goblin lair to the tunnels on the other side where Webfoot resided. (Oops - hadn't designed Webfoot yet. I reskinned a young black dragon and we were fine). However, the group, treacherous bunch that they are, were making note of the goblin numbers so that they could take them out on the way back... The group is 5 PCs of levels 2 and 3. Then they reached one of the main goblin caves, in which two dozen goblins were doing what goblins do when not fighting adventurers. Adam asked me if they were all minions. I'm pretty free with that information, and told him about 20 were minions. Nate and Adam looked at each other. 20 Minions? Yeah, that was still a threat. 4-5 minions? Not really. But 20? Ooh, boy! It's nice to get that reaction from your more headstrong players. :) Anyway, in a couple of hours I'm off to my Sunday campaign as we continue through [i]H2 Thunderspire Labyrinth[/i]. We've just reached the Well of Demons section (so I guess we have 3-4 sessions left of this adventure). Anyway, just checking monster numbers: W1: 4 monsters W2: 7 monsters W3: 9 monsters W4: 4 monsters W6: 3 monsters W7: 5 monsters W8: 6 monsters W9: 1 solo monster W10: 6 monsters Incredibly, no minions! (I think there's only one encounter in the adventure with minions). From what I'm seeing of the published adventures, 3-7 monsters are pretty much the norm. There are time when I want the shackles to be broken, and minions to rain from the sky... let's have 30 monsters in a single encounter and see what happens! But perhaps that's just me. :) Cheers! [/QUOTE]
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