You travel a full day 10 hours out and you get past Cragmaw hideout not wanting to waste time you push on so that you can be at the Castle by another full day's journey.  You set up camp and its dusk as the light starts to fade and the winds fade a bit.  Just as you finish your evening meal you clean up a bit and Matheris Rapier of warning alerts him.

3 Hobgoblins and a Hobgoblin Captain are trying to get the drop on you.

They are 30 ft north of you all 4 are in a line 10 ft spacing from each other.  Captain is middle left.

Roll initiative with advantage if withing 30 ft of Matheris or you have your own advantage item and are in a different location from the group:

I'll set up an encounter build.  

Matheris Init: 18

Stealth:  21

 Inits

Matheris 18

Hobgoblin C 12

Hobgoblin A 10

Hobgoblin Captian 7 (Dex 14)

Hobgoblin B 7 (Dex 12)

I'll update as I get init rolls and once I start the encounter builder it will give me A,B,C for the Hobgoblin to differentiate.

I'm going to say you've started a campfire and Karea can be outside the campfire light radius invisible.

7 pm just after sunset 

If you have player pre-encounter concerns let me know.

OOC - I don’t know if it helps but Faith has Alarm as a ritual and if it was camp being made, would’ve made it as a boundary to assist with keeping watch. 

Initiative: 15

Lena would have distributed Goodberries in the morning equal to unused spell slots from the day before... I assume this is all of them?

Everyone but Faith  (PC's) has a warning weapon, so we're probably all covered as camps wouldn't be that big. Would whoever was on watch have had a chance to see the hobgoblin's approach?

Initiative 16

DM - I think Dragon is out of pocket for the weekend so I rolled for Karea...26 init.  Faith has alarm up so at 60 ft you got the alert.  Faith has a dragon-touched focus (slumbering) that gives him advantage too so we all have advantage.

I started the encounter and Kare is up:  I will run Karea's action tonight if Dragon hasn't gotten to it.

Hobgoblin encounter

@DM, are your wind effects still in play, or was that just yesterday? 

I'm back. Karea's longbow alerts her of danger, so she takes it out, firing off two shots toward the captain, and closes to melee range with him, staying invisible as she goes for a kick. 

Attack: 27 Damage: 12

Attack: 18 Damage: 8

Attack: 20 Damage: 6 

One of the attacks deals 4 sneak attack damage. If the captain falls before all the attacks have been made, she switches targets to the far left hobgoblin. 

Crit sneak attack: 3 more damage

I forgot about dread ambusher's extra damage. 2

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@DM, are your wind effects still in play, or was that just yesterday? 

 OOC  - It was in a prior post that the wind died down.   You set up camp and its dusk as the light starts to fade and the winds fade a bit. 

Karea unleashes a hidden assault on the Hobgoblin Captain who was itching for a fight.  Little did he know it was not going to go as he planned.  32 points of damage.  The Hobgoblin staggers as the wounds kept coming..

Matheris is up.

The Hobgoblins are 10 ft apart he moves to within 5 ft of the Hobgoblin Captain and 5ft of the Hobgoblin to the on the far left.  He attacks the Hobgoblin Captain to finish it off.

Action: Rapier of Warning Attack Hobgoblin Captain:  25! Damage: 8   

Bonus action: Two-weapon Fighting

Moon Touched Rapier attack Hobgoblin Captain or Hobgoblin to the left:  26! Damage: 1

Reaction: Opportunity attack

Sneak Attack: roll to be applied to either finish off the Captain or to the Hobgoblin to the left:  1

Matheris finishes off the Hobgoblin Captain with a skilled primary attack but as he positioned to strike at the Hobgoblin it ducked under the attack and misses Hobgolin A.

Hobgoblin A, 20 ft to the right is Hobgoblin B then 10ft to the right of that is Hobgoblin C.  All 30ft away at this point.

Lena is up:

OOC - Karea make sure to check off the abilities that are used such as favored foe or other limited use abilities.  Same for the other PCs abilities as you use them.

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OOC - Karea make sure to check off the abilities that are used such as favored foe or other limited use abilities.  Same for the other PCs abilities as you use them.

 

 Got it. I don't think I've used anything limited today though (I believe we've taken a long rest). 

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OOC - Karea make sure to check off the abilities that are used such as favored foe or other limited use abilities.  Same for the other PCs abilities as you use them.

 

 Got it. I don't think I've used anything limited today though (I believe we've taken a long rest). 

 You've used Favored foe dice damage,   I think you get 3 time per rest.

Lena hip shoots her hand crossbow, firing on instinct rather than her normal aimed approach. She fires at Hobgoblin A, then moves to C if A is downed.

Attack (Normal): 28 (crit) Damage: 9 piercing

Attack (Second attack): 15 Damage: 4 piercing

Attack (Dread Ambusher): 5 (with sharpshooter)

Attack (Bonus action): 19 (with sharpshooter) Damage: 17

Using her movement, she will duck behind a tent and hunker down.

Faith spins his ring to face the middle Hobgoblin, mumbling a hex as he does so, and fires a greasy incendiary Eldritch Blast at the ambusher, while he runs to take cover behind the nearest tent. Off the hip, his aim is not as good as he would like. 

AR: 12 DR: 12

Hex: Dexterity disadvantage, 5 necrotic if hit. 

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Lena hip shoots her hand crossbow, firing on instinct rather than her normal aimed approach. She fires at Hobgoblin A, then moves to C if A is downed.

Attack (Normal): 28 (crit) Damage: 9 piercing  This attack hits.. 

Attack (Second attack): 15 Damage: 4 piercing  This attack misses

Attack (Dread Ambusher): 5 (with sharpshooter) I think this goes with a third attack not with the Bonus Action. So Action = Attack #1, Attack #2 and then Dread Ambusher Attack #3 with a bonus of 1d8 damage to the attack?  

Then Bonus action below on it's own?

Attack (Bonus action): 19 (with sharpshooter) Damage: 17  This attack hits.  But I can't resolve whether it's Hobgoblin A or C until we clarify the Attack sequence.  If there is a 3rd attack that may finish hobgoblin A and the bonus action kills Hobgoblin C leaving Hobgoblin B for Faiths action.

Using her movement, she will duck behind a tent and hunker down.

Dread Ambusher - If you take the Attack action on that turn, you can make one additional weapon attack as part of that action. If that attack hits, the target takes an extra 1d8 damage of the weapon’s damage type.

Lena gets 2 attacks normally...with Dread Ambusher you add an attack with the bonus 1d8 if it hits.  Correct?

Then the Bonus action to use the Hand crossbow....Correct?  That's how I'm reading it.  I'll need a third attack roll and apply the 1d8 already rolled to it if it hits.

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Faith spins his ring to face the middle Hobgoblin, mumbling a hex as he does so, and fires a greasy incendiary Eldritch Blast at the ambusher, while he runs to take cover behind the nearest tent. Off the hip, his aim is not as good as he would like. 

AR: 12 DR: 12  This misses

Hex: Dexterity disadvantage, 5 necrotic if hit. 

Faith's attack misses for sure..The only question now would be the third attack for Lena..I'm thinking there is.  I'd like to verify that though.  So, based on how Lena's attack sequence is written all attack would have to be used on hobgoblin A to bring it down.  Leaving  B and C to go after Faith.

If the consensus is that there is a third attack, then pending that roll which could finish Hobgoblin A then the Bonus Action would kill Hogboblin C leaving only Hobgoblin B to go.

I may be missing something though.

OoC - Sorry for the confusion. The 5 was the attack roll (no advantage on any as far as I am aware). So I assumed a miss and rolled no damage for it.