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Message: <blockquote data-quote="boothbey" data-source="post: 413012" data-attributes="member: 7107">Mwuahahaha.  This is the best party to run for at first level.  Heh.  Completely inexperienced.  No preconceived notions, nobody with every monster description memorized.I have a couple suggestions...1)  Have a seasoned (not necessarily high level npc) act as a mentor to the party.  2)  The Darwinian Response.  Realize, and help your players realize that not every first level character makes it to second level.  When they throw the sword and it misses by a mile, just ask them what they want to do now that they are unarmed.  heh.  They will learn.  3)  Taunt the party.  If the party is hiding in the dark without a light source, they can't see the monsters.  Have the darkvision drow fighter tease them.  "You think you can hide from me?  I was born in darkness.  Mwuhahaha."  etc.  <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=":)" />  Insert as much melodrama as you need to get the point across.As far as monsters go...just be sure to keep the monster/npc inteligence score in mind.  Smart monsters will generally have some kind of plan and contrary to how the game seems to normally work, not everything is going to fight to the death.</blockquote>