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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Mhoram" data-source="post: 4521603" data-attributes="member: 4789">After reading replies and doing some math comparisons this is what the wife and I decided on - and I like to play tough characters, and it is solo play, so balance with other players is not really required.Rules for running 2 characters in a 5 character encounter/adventures.Apply Class Template from DMG.Character gains an additional Paragon Path, with bonus Powers for Paragon powers as well.+2 to All CharacteristicsHalf again # of Healing SurgesBase 2 action points and can use 2 action points in an encounterMilestones come after every encounterAllows a Third Wind in addition to Second Wind.Monetary and magic item rewards are using the standard 5 character rewards. This more than doubles equipment and money for the characters, but keeps the party amount the same.Reasons for Changes - Applying the Template adds hit points, powers and defenses. It allows the filling of 2 roles for each character.Adding in the extra paragon keeps up the number of powers and greater options. Even so, 1 character with template and an additional PP does not match the number of daily or encounter powers that 2 characters have.Adding half again the number of healing surges because the templated character will never have as many hit points as 2 single classed characters – the templated characters will have more hit points than a normal, but not double – so in addition to the fact that the templated characters have a larger healing surge, it isn't as great as 2.5 healing surges of a normal party. Third Wind is for much the same reason. Allows 2 character to take as much damage as 5 in a combat.Action points are increased – a party of 5 gets 5 action points used per encounter. A party of two with 2 starting gets 2 – so they are still behind a normal party.Milestones are after every encounter – this doubles the rate of action point recovery (see above) and also daily magic item usage – again a normal party has 5, the party of 2 (even with doubling) has 4.Even with applying all of these changes, the hit points, healing surges, action points and magic item use are still less than a normal 5 person party. So adding in +2 to all characteristics (which allows for effectively a flat +1 bonus to virtually every roll)  seems appropriateThese rules should allow a 2 character party to be roughly equal to a 5 character party.If I erred, I erred on the side of too tough, because it is easy to scale back if things are too much.Experience is 2/5s of normal - level progression speed is pretty much the same.</blockquote>

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