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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nittanytbone" data-source="post: 3175424" data-attributes="member: 35709">Trip is AWESOME at low levels.  The "balance" here is that at higher levels, monsters get bigger/can fly/have more legs/are stronger, and trip becomes somewhat less useful.That being said, other than the defenses mentioned above, the best I can suggest is give the victims some intelligent counters.They can throw nets (even with a -4 non prof penalty, its still just a touch attack) and then follow up with missile weapons against the immobilized PCs...Use reach weapons and formation fighting to stay out of the range of the trip machines...Bullrush the PCs away from tripped comrades to allow their allies to stand up again without the AoO...Rush the PCs and overwhelm them (even a PC with 14 dex and combat reflexes only gets so many AoO a round...  a half dozen orcs can charge in and grapple/trip him)...Employ their own animal friends.  Why can't the goblins have some pet wolves of their own to have charge in first while the goblins fire ranged weapons, scatter caltrops, and throw alchemical items?</blockquote>