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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 1253383" data-attributes="member: 7737">Agree with Buttercup - have the monsters run away; have the dumb ones use crappy tactics. (No bullrushing the PCs off the cliff; monsters don't go out of their way to flank PCs; monsters don't use readied actions.) Sprinkle healing potions around liberally, and hope that your PCs actually use them. (My players like to hoard them for "someday" - and then wonder why I am exasperated when they die with 3 potions of cure moderate wounds in their pack.) Give the PCs somewhere safe to rest. They can withdraw from the dungeon, or find a single-entrance room and spike the door shut. Don't punish them for this, either. (That can wait for when they start abusing rope trick.) You could try an idea from Neverwinter Nights: on its easiest setting, no monster can ever confirm a critical hit on a PC (but PCs can still confirm crits on monsters). Believe or not this makes a huge difference, especially at low levels when a single crit from a greataxe or greatsword can kill a PC. If you want to be really thorough, re-do all encounters so the EL is about 1/2 to 3/4 of what it should be for a standard party of 4 PCs. However, this can quickly get to be a pain in the butt, so I usually just make changes by gut feel. ("Six kobolds and two dire rates listed, eh? Well, four kobolds and one rat seems about right.")</blockquote>