I wrote this up and I think I cribbed big parts of it from a
Dragon magazine article about orcs but goblins work just as well.
- Mounted on monsters (take your pick)
- Throw a skunk at party
- Roll boulders downhill at PCs
- A non-goblin ally leads the PCs into an to ambush
- Wave torches at mounts to spook them
- Dig pits in the area of the ambush
- Nets slug in the trees
- Lots of Goblin bowman at very long range
- Ravine high advantage and cover
- Hidden spears set for a charge
- Grease has been spread on ground
- Throw sacks of pepper
- All the goblins have poisoned weapons or other cursed weapons
- Sneak in at night while party sleeps
- Wear out a party over several days with hit and run tactics don’t let the party sleep.
- A number of goblins dress up like other monster (worse have prisoners dressed up like this)
- Hostage children used as shields
- Pet monster
- Feign an attack on non-goblin allies
- Tripwires in the underbrush
- Bows fire then back away,
- Muddy ground soaked with oil, then set on fire
- Goblin with class levels
- Drugged wine is left for the PCs
- Green leaves on goblin cookpot fires makes dense smoke downwind of the camp
- Non-goblin allies or just Hired Mercenaries to fight the party
- Goblins are concealed in water, breathing through reeds, leap out of the water (surprise)!
- Change up the goblin feats to give them a new trick or two
- Use large weapons two-handed which deal more dmg
- Cause an Avalanche over a mountain trail
- Doctored a spring with a sweet tasting drug
- Goblin Dogs (or other monster) to serve as guardians and trackers
- Goblins have aerial support from goblins mounted on flying creatuers like giant wasps
- Goblins use flaming arrows
- Shield wall with Tower shields
- Palisade must cross grants cover
- Goblins arches firing from a boat in a nearby river or lake
- Goblins scatter caltrops
- Logs soaked with flaming tar are rolled down hills at the Pcs
- Sacks filled with angry snakes are tossed into the PCs camp at night
- Dismounting rope across the path of retreat to get mounted pursuers.
- The Goblins have spread bear traps throughout the underbrush
- An eatchen cave underneath the trail they collapse it deep pit with loose earthen walls (that may collapse)
- Off handed weapon use
- Clad in rusty but functional plate mail
- Goblink bowmen on a grove atop the nearby hill each archer has a stuffed dummy next to him
- The goblins have a mascot templated Creature be creative.
- Bull roarer that make horses nervous
- Grappling Goblins no fencing with them (or other combat maneuver like feint)
- catapult in the brush on a mountain?
- Ditch filled with tar then set on fire to form a barrier
- A non-goblin ally with pigsblood and dressed as a merchant concealed poison dagger
- dark rainy night cuts down on torches
- A non-goblin ally joints the party! (a traitor)
- Climb trees firing from the safety of high branch
- Brush and forest fire in dry weather
- War Wagon arrow slits and wet hides
- Trap of a flaming barricade and the goblins fire over it with bows
- A false treasure map lures victims into an ambush
- the goblins cause herd animals to stampede in the party (cattle, elephants, dinosaurs!)
- Twice as many goblins as PCs they fight in pairs one all out defense the other attacking (Teamwork feats)
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