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Well, things got even worse. Just found out that I had missed three healing powers, an Encounter healing power, a Paragon healing power, and a Daily healing power. These three makes the healing graph even worse. So big question is - should you optimize the game play based on maximized...

HYBRID SOLUTION So what happens when we apply the Hybrid Solution - well magic happens again ;-) Suddenly the party starts to consume HS resources again and cannot run combat forever. As can be seen below, I do not have to drastically change the monster damage output in order to get a "flat"...

HYBRID SOLUTION So I went to explore a Hybrid Solution. I looked at two major but yet simple changes: Healing Word: Healing Word heals a lot of damage, which is good in the Single Encounter scenario, as we get a game that works like 4th Edition during the tactical battles. However, if I want...

I agree, if you want to keep the damage/attack the same, but increase monster damage per round, you could go the route to create monsters with same damage/attack but half the Hit Points and double the amount of monsters. I think S'mon was playing around with that idea in his new campaign (Post...

Now I get double messages here (which is fine, but make it harder for me to decide upon a way forward). Pemerton suggest that the doubling of monster damage output at Epic level play could really hurt the game balance and might not be the right way forward. At the same time, you are pointing to...

I like the idea that not every encounter have to be tactical and taking long time to resolve. I want to be able to run some short but meaningful encounters that somehow tax the players. As we have shown earlier, 4th Edition is not really built for that. I do not like all aspects of 5e, and...

I am trying to compensate for the extreme healing capability WotC has introduced at higher level in order to make the game play in a similar way across all the levels - then those damage levels are needed. You could do as you suggest but that would mean that you would have to have different...

For those of you who has or are running Epic level play, do you think your characters would be able to meet monsters of equal level as themselves but with the damage output proposed below. What does your instinct or personal analysis/play say? This will require the party to quickly deal with...

After some tweaking on the monster damage output, i.e. doing it a little more granular than the +1 Heroic, +2 Paragon and +4 Epic level. I finally managed to reach a curve which I am quite happy with. The blue line (HS left at the end of the adventuring day) is quite balanced across levels...

My guess is that the blue line "bump" at Epic level in post #131 comes from the fact that the healing values are not very smooth. To get rid of this we can try to even them out by replacing them with a 3rd order polynomial (if that is the engligh word) of the 3rd order. The blue bar is the party...

I am trying to adapt the 4th Edition combat and rest economy to allow it to play like 5th Edition - i.e. it will be more easy to just take an existing 5th Edition adventure and run as is with these 4.5 edition rules and then add a number of climatic battles, rather than having to recreate the...