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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 5714735" data-attributes="member: 6957">I think that the real solution is to have the encounters be interesting, even if it is just bandits.A line of archers along the top of a talus slope (for difficult terrain), swords and spears at the bottom. Give them some teamwork feats, if you use them.Bandits with a planned escape route for when the engagement goes all pear shaped. (One favorite, borrowed from a source that I no longer remember, is some air filled barrels floating under muddy water, kept from rising to the surface by ropes and open on the bottom. A place for the surviving bandits to hide after diving into the river, good for maybe an hour or so.)Encounters where the bandits are already engaged in battle, or are pillaging a caravan.An encounter with bandits that are already in battle with somebody/something that outclasses them - letting the PCs engage a critter/foe that is already injured. (Or, in a robber encounter, the party 'rescuing' a disguised lich. One that is then favorably inclined toward the PCs if they tried to help 'her'.) Encounters with a band of brigands that are battling in an internal dispute - only to unite if the PCs engage them while they are fighting.I will admit, I have used more than my share of robber/bandit/highwayman encounters.The Auld Grump</blockquote>