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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 5713759" data-attributes="member: 6957">On the flip side is the party making that one crucial Spot/Listen/Perception roll that means the ambush doesn't go as the bad guys planned.Makes for a happy party.Another tactic are those 'bandits' that just harass the party - spend two or three rounds shooting at the team, then fading into the woods instead of coming to grips. If the party starts to avoid those woods then the bandits have won. They don't need to rob the party, they just need the party to go somewhere else!And, with the mercs turned bandit, you can find entire towns under the control of heavily armed and armored bandits.... And not afraid to attack with what appears to be overwhelming numbers.... 'Wooh, look boys! Four adventurers... good thing there's twenty of, err, eighteen, fifteen? Run away! Run away!' D&D being D&D, numbers can be deceiving.... <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/angel.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":angel:" title="Angel    :angel:" data-shortname=":angel:" />Another fun gambit is 'false numbers' - scarecrows done up to look like men hiding in the woods, adding a half dozen or so men to the apparent size of the threat. And any shots sent in their direction will be wasted.The Auld Grump</blockquote>