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<blockquote data-quote="KrazyHades" data-source="post: 3239355" data-attributes="member: 48492">In one of my old campaigns we had a group with no tank, but a sorcerer, a wizard, cleric, and rogue. The sorcerer went for lots of illusion and stealth style spells, which they used to scare or lure away or just sneak around. He also would make illusions to hide the rogue (such as placing an illusion of a rock in front of him) so that the rogue could still hit the opponents with sneak attacks. It worked out well.I was careful to change my DMing strategy, but not too greatly. I might still create large numbers of enemy monsters, but one favored strategy of the party was for the sorcerer to create pandemonium with a big illusion and then disguise the party as the same type of creature and just amble along through the chaos.Don't forget, and yes I know you probably know this (but some DM's seem not to!!!) that one should give the XP for solving the encounter, not necessarily killing all the enemies!!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KrazyHades, post: 3239355, member: 48492"] In one of my old campaigns we had a group with no tank, but a sorcerer, a wizard, cleric, and rogue. The sorcerer went for lots of illusion and stealth style spells, which they used to scare or lure away or just sneak around. He also would make illusions to hide the rogue (such as placing an illusion of a rock in front of him) so that the rogue could still hit the opponents with sneak attacks. It worked out well. I was careful to change my DMing strategy, but not too greatly. I might still create large numbers of enemy monsters, but one favored strategy of the party was for the sorcerer to create pandemonium with a big illusion and then disguise the party as the same type of creature and just amble along through the chaos. Don't forget, and yes I know you probably know this (but some DM's seem not to!!!) that one should give the XP for solving the encounter, not necessarily killing all the enemies!! [/QUOTE]

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