YO!

Welcome. Have a seat anywhere.

Nifty. * finds suitable armchair *

What is your group like?

We're all slightly out of college, playing over Roll20 + Google Hangouts.

RPG Experience is all over the place.

(Three players)

Playstyle? Laid back or do they want their characters to have actual risk?

I push my encounters really hard, but I also don't kill characters.

So I tend to run big, longish combats where the PCs scrape through, occaisonally involving prescripted retreats of the enemy.

Hmmm.

We've been playing since last summer, two adventures.

I can do that. I run similar encounters only I will butcher my players unless it is a scripted event they are meant to run from.

I do tend to underestimate them slightly though.

@Grubermensch Ok tell me about their characters and personalities.

First adventure was find caravan -> find captured merchants -> defeat sorceress trying to open a portal to somethingerother.

(Sorry got to this so I'll finish here first)

Second adventure was patron sends them to recon sketchy guy -> caravan attacked and important NPC captured -> another NPC deputizes party to find her -> wilderness catch-up-to-bad-guys-before-lair trek

Just wrapped the big battle for that one, all that's left is denouement

Characters:

Dwarf Druid (w/ 1 level of fighter). Acts most creatively of the bunch to resolve encounters, using druid powers etc. Player has most tabletop experience. Can't arse him to write a backstory.

Human Cleric. Backstory has him growing up as a street urchin before getting in with a temple of war clerics. Tends to wade into the middle of things rather than staying out of the fray and playing support.

There was one more right?

yep wriitng it

ok

Elf Ranger. Player's first tabletop campaign. Backstory puts him in with the intelligence community, and an old superior recently showed up and offered him the opportunity to come back. Way way backstory has him briefly encountering an avatar of a forest god on a hunting expedition (but this is probably something to be saved for a bigger adventure). Prefers to pick off targets at range, using cover etc.

The patron thus far is a mutual acquaintance of them all and has been putting them in positions of doing things without really any backup or introduction or explanation of what is really going on. Think Q from Star Trek, if you're familiar with that.

All they have dealt with so far are relatively small scale fights?

How do you define small scale

Less then 10-15 foes

In one fight

The two main fights in the current adventure were like ~25.

Ok.

What is your setting like? What are their levels?

Also what system are you playing in?

Mostly mooks, but there were 7 serious opponents, all built as PCs at one level below (leader on level with party)

PCs will all be level 5 at the start of the adventure

Playing in the final playtest ruleset, going to backport RP mechanics from the basic rules but nothing else.

Setting?

Homebrew

Have they done indoor battles?

Not space-constrained.

The first adventure ended with a battle that was technically indoors, but it was a large sanctuary hall, so not really different from an outdoor battle.

Have not had any urban adventures yet.

Hmm. An encounter where they can funnel foes and such would be interesting. See if the druid player can shine as a tactician and position and support his allies appropriately. Try to make it so if they position themselves right they can get a major advantage. The hook could be simply being hired to rid a house of a bandit clan.

It would make an interesting fight. Then they could have an mini adventure trying to follow and wipe out the clan.

Hmmm

I can actually fit that to my campaign plot

... in a few different ways actually

It would give everyone a good opportunity to do what they like. The druid can play tactician and support both cleric and ranger. The ranger can jump onto a table or something and shoot over the cleric's head while the cleric tanks the hall keeping the foes all funneled together.

Or at least from the information I have that is what I put together.

Yeah I think that will do nicely.

Thanks for your help.

No problem glad to help