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<blockquote data-quote="Destil" data-source="post: 988144" data-attributes="member: 1980">This is highly dependent on how skilled the DM is. A goods DM will judge the party's ability to take/deal damage. Given how rough CRs (they can't aproximate anything smaller than 50%) are increasing it by 2 for a party with double the members but 1/2 of them one level lower an encounter with a CR twice as high will rarely be that much more deadly, if thought out properly. At very very low levels it can be a problem, but leadership isn't even available until 5th level, anyway.There's a very small power discrepency between 8 20th level PCs and and 4 19th and 4 20th level PCs.There's a more serious discrepency between 8 level 5s and 4 level 3s with 4 level 5s, but even that's not too serious unless all the 3s are multiclass psion/sorcerers or something.And since CR rules don't very well fit partys larger than 4 PCs to begin with, I really don't see this as a serious issue. Unless you have a DM who always throws a single high offense / low defense creature at that party. What will give you a bodycount is just throwing one big, high offense creature at a party and upping the CR by 2 over what you had planed to begin with. But if you're only using that sort of challenge with large partys you already have encounters that end very quickly and typically have a body count, anyway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Destil, post: 988144, member: 1980"] This is highly dependent on how skilled the DM is. A goods DM will judge the party's ability to take/deal damage. Given how rough CRs (they can't aproximate anything smaller than 50%) are increasing it by 2 for a party with double the members but 1/2 of them one level lower an encounter with a CR twice as high will rarely be that much more deadly, if thought out properly. At very very low levels it can be a problem, but leadership isn't even available until 5th level, anyway. There's a very small power discrepency between 8 20th level PCs and and 4 19th and 4 20th level PCs. There's a more serious discrepency between 8 level 5s and 4 level 3s with 4 level 5s, but even that's not too serious unless all the 3s are multiclass psion/sorcerers or something. And since CR rules don't very well fit partys larger than 4 PCs to begin with, I really don't see this as a serious issue. Unless you have a DM who always throws a single high offense / low defense creature at that party. What will give you a bodycount is just throwing one big, high offense creature at a party and upping the CR by 2 over what you had planed to begin with. But if you're only using that sort of challenge with large partys you already have encounters that end very quickly and typically have a body count, anyway. [/QUOTE]

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