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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 5435195" data-attributes="member: 63">Well, the DMG2 has rules for companion NPCs, folks who use PC math but only have one or two powers, making them really easy to keep track of in combat. And the campaign saga has a bevy of options for who those companions could be -- Torrent, Tiljann, Katrina, etc.If you really don't want to do that, I'd just say you need to balance the action and hit point economy. Normally a 5 round combat with 5 PCs has 25 PC standard actions. Maybe 30 with action points. With 3 PCs, you've got 15 PC standard actions, maybe 18 with action points. Likewise, monsters might chew up 15 healing surges per encounter, which is 3 per PC in a normal party, but 5 per PC in a small party.My simplest suggestion is to give each PC 2 bonus action points per encounter (but they still can only use one per turn). Then give each PC 5 extra healing surges per day, and let them use their second wind once per encounter as a free action.</blockquote>