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<blockquote data-quote="interwyrm" data-source="post: 3697714" data-attributes="member: 31913">Give them allies - not impressive ones. Just having extra bodies to soak up a few hits makes sense. If your PCs are riding through the moutains on horses, and ankheg's surprise attack... make them eat the horses, not the PCs. I mean, honestly... if you were a hungry monster, which would you rather eat? Stringy, pointy, squirmy human or a nice fleshy horse? Riding dogs make great pets too. They are actually somewhat effective in combat and also might be better targets for enemies.Mechanical ideas...No instant death. If the orc crits on a PC with his battleaxe or the ghoul coup de gras the paralyzed wizard, the PC drops to -1 hp instead of dead. If that's too much, make the caveat that casting a healing spell on him will only stabilize him and will not revive him until after combat. Of course, this won't help with TPK, just with invidual deaths. If combined with bringing along a tough NPC who manages to not steal the glory, but at the same time can stay alive very well... then a TPK becomes much less likely. Create a high-hp, high-ac, low damage character for this purpose.Action points as previously mentioned.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="interwyrm, post: 3697714, member: 31913"] Give them allies - not impressive ones. Just having extra bodies to soak up a few hits makes sense. If your PCs are riding through the moutains on horses, and ankheg's surprise attack... make them eat the horses, not the PCs. I mean, honestly... if you were a hungry monster, which would you rather eat? Stringy, pointy, squirmy human or a nice fleshy horse? Riding dogs make great pets too. They are actually somewhat effective in combat and also might be better targets for enemies. Mechanical ideas... No instant death. If the orc crits on a PC with his battleaxe or the ghoul coup de gras the paralyzed wizard, the PC drops to -1 hp instead of dead. If that's too much, make the caveat that casting a healing spell on him will only stabilize him and will not revive him until after combat. Of course, this won't help with TPK, just with invidual deaths. If combined with bringing along a tough NPC who manages to not steal the glory, but at the same time can stay alive very well... then a TPK becomes much less likely. Create a high-hp, high-ac, low damage character for this purpose. Action points as previously mentioned. [/QUOTE]

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