I would add that bandits are often deserters from the army, so they have military training but they lack military discipline.  As for weapons, I would add in short swords, daggers and clubs for melee weapons and shortbows for ranged weapons.  For armor, I would say a typical bandit may have no armor, padded armor, leather armor of studded leather armor, the latter being the armor they had in the army before they deserted.  They are likewise wearing helmets if they are deserters.

Higher level bandits are usually deserters because they benefit the success of the group with their training.  But a typical deserter is not typically a former leader in the army so they are quickly in "over their head" once the group exceeds ten bandits.  They don't have experience controlling that many men at once and things devolve into an every-man for himself free for all.  They have a little higher wisdom because they have been trained to look for and conduct ambushes.

A group should have one leader if there are six or more, and very large groups will have one leader for each ten bandits.  However, the groups will not work well together if the situation changes.  For example, if the situation allows one group to shoot into the fight with bows and that is their 'assignment' they stick to that until they need to engage in melee combat.  At that point each member of that sub group either charges in if he thinks it is going well, or flees if he thinks it isn't.

Bandit leaders may have a longsword and/or ill fitting chain shirt from a previous successful raid.  One key identifier of bandits is their general filthy apparel.  They rely on sudden violence to achieve their goals before the foe can become organized.  When they believe they are winning they select their targets carefully hoping to save their treasure, including the non-combatants.  But if things turn sour on them they begin to shoot at the core of the group hoping to hit anything.

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that sounds super useful when it comes to bandits, thugs etc. 

even if its just small stuff: (Halfling Bandit) -4hp, +2AC, -2 Str, +2 Dex

 

+2 AC and -2 STR?

+1 AC for Dex, and the HP change is because of hit-die, but what’s the other modifiers for?

 Because halflings don’t have the much strength and there small so there ac increases

 I’m a bit late to this reply, but I see.  Size bonus, like in 3e.

the DM helped you out there, you guys got unlucky

lvl1 fights with some goblins and shit can go pretty bad in rolls

bandits are ez

nice

habbabúí

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The bandit portrait is not visible. Is the link broken?

 There is no portrait in general 

When bandits attack level 10 party

The members: Looks like you'll need some Band-aids for your Bandits!

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will they ever impliment a way to auto change the stats by chosing a race?

I know I'm asking a lot of a free service, but I would like to:

open the bandit stats -> click "any race" -> choose a race -> have basic stats for (race) bandit.

Instead of having a cluttered homebrew page because I had to make 20 different bandits, nobles, thugs, etc,.

 I never thought of that, but it sounds really useful.  I'd love to see that soon. 

I think those are for when a character could be one of multiple races. I got a similar result from Gladiators.

This. 1000% this

Bad luck dude

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That doesn't sound so bad, I'm running Descent into Avernus for my family, we had a session 0, created characters and made a brief delve into the world, we cut off the session before the first encounter, what is it you may ask:

1 Bandit Captain + 7 bandits vs 5 lvl 1 characters 

Great book and looks like it will be a very interesting campaign, I don't want to intentionally go easy on the party (though it's their 1st dnd experience ever), but all encounters seem deadly, like they're gonna get hit by a fireball at lvl 2 in the second dungeon and it's not even half way in it and it has a pretty much party killing trap as well...

I guess it's all to drive in the thought that jurney into hell is very dangerous even before opening the gates into it

 I hac the exact same expierience and I made the cultist of myrkul not use fireball because it was just too OP.

Do I just give it a random race or... ?

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Do I just give it a random race or... ?

 If you're the DM, make it whatever race you want. If you don't care, then give it a random one, or just make it human

I dont think there is one. just what appears to be a human sillouhette

oh my God I'm so mad at myself. I ran a whole ass full on campaign without knowing about the humanoid section. A whole 1-20 campaign, where I played with 3-5 fluctuating people for multiple years, where I constantly homebrewed my own stats for humanoids. I might just jump off a bridge after that one. Jesus, I am so mad and sad at the same time. Ouch.

are these good to use for a one player game who is a lev 2?