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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 7301626" data-attributes="member: 16814">You have obviously never dug a foxhole.Tables from the next room would have been brought forward to provide cover and block flanking passages.  Fires would have been set to do the same.  Instead of holding the next door, the boss of the goblins (it was goblins) would have left a few goblins to harass the party as they fell back into the best defensive position that would have funneled the party onto a narrow bridge when the goblins could hold at the end and also set up flanking fire from a nearby platform only reachable from the area across the bridge. They would have brought shaman forward and been able to use his magics to harass the party from the same platform, and also the grey ooze the shaman kept in a clay pot, which could have been hurled into the party once they were committed to the bridge assault.In short, in ten minutes the goblins would have gone from disorganized to well organized, from exposed living conditions to defensive strongpoints fortified by makeshift barriers, from a running string of small encounters to a combined front, from dealing with only the melee might to also dealing with the magic might of the clan, and, in general, a triple deadly fight in poor tactical conditions for 3rd level characters instead of the string of hard, easy, easy, hard that was there if they pressed the assault.Any more questions?</blockquote>