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<blockquote data-quote="BiggusGeekus" data-source="post: 1455708" data-attributes="member: 1014"><p>If the second guy shows up, great. I mean, where's the harm? It'll also be easier to determine encounter difficulty. </p><p></p><p>In the meantime, borrow a page from the Lone Wolf books. Keep combat to one-on-one or one-on-two. Additonally, remember that CRs were designed for a party of four. So a group of four 3rd level characters should be able to beat a CR 3 critter using 20% of their resources. A single 3rd level character will likely get pasted. You'll have to experiment a lot with this, but for now just subtract two from the guy's level to determine a good CR. </p><p></p><p>Also, Midnight is a hard setting to figure for CRs. There's a chapter in the book on that. You'll have to be pretty careful. A solo midnight game isn't really well-covered territory.</p><p></p><p>You might have to fudge a bit anyway. An orc (CR 0.5) using a greataxe can critical for over 40hps worth of damage with some luck. So a single orc has the ability to outright kill most 3rd level characters to say nothing of 1st or 2nd level guys. You may want to secretly make the solo guy immune to criticals for the first couple of games until you get the hang of things.</p><p></p><p>Good luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BiggusGeekus, post: 1455708, member: 1014"] If the second guy shows up, great. I mean, where's the harm? It'll also be easier to determine encounter difficulty. In the meantime, borrow a page from the Lone Wolf books. Keep combat to one-on-one or one-on-two. Additonally, remember that CRs were designed for a party of four. So a group of four 3rd level characters should be able to beat a CR 3 critter using 20% of their resources. A single 3rd level character will likely get pasted. You'll have to experiment a lot with this, but for now just subtract two from the guy's level to determine a good CR. Also, Midnight is a hard setting to figure for CRs. There's a chapter in the book on that. You'll have to be pretty careful. A solo midnight game isn't really well-covered territory. You might have to fudge a bit anyway. An orc (CR 0.5) using a greataxe can critical for over 40hps worth of damage with some luck. So a single orc has the ability to outright kill most 3rd level characters to say nothing of 1st or 2nd level guys. You may want to secretly make the solo guy immune to criticals for the first couple of games until you get the hang of things. Good luck! [/QUOTE]
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