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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dog Moon" data-source="post: 3104335" data-attributes="member: 23023">I wasn't necessarily complaining about the situation [although the fact that escaping in the direction of the exit means passing through 1 Giant and 3 Ettins is freakin' annoying], and I can totally understand the idea of the enemies gaining reinforcements because that occurs in my games too.And yes, we are now trying to determine how to avoid the 4 opponents blocking our path to freedom.The question I was trying to ask before and probably only now able to say is 'When adding reinforcements, do you consider how the PCs are and their resources, or do you simply grab a bunch of creatures from the surrounding areas and have them reinforce the original group of monsters?'So if you believed that adding 6 Ettins/Giants into the mix will utterly annihilate the PCs, do you reduce their numbers by a couple, perhaps having them all come through one entrance and leaving the PCs a way out, or do you not think about the PCs and do what you think would realistically occur?Or, on the other hand, would you ADD more if you thought the PCs could still annihilate them, even if that means adding creatures to the dungeon who weren't initially there or scraping up every last creature in the vicinity?</blockquote>