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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AllisterH" data-source="post: 4162353" data-attributes="member: 51325">Er, I count 5 monsters there. 1 succubus + 2 assassins + 2 constrictors = 5 monsters, no?I think you're doing it wrong.The monster encounter design is based on an XP budget. An encounter is based on the number of persons in the PC party and thus, each PC supplies an equal amount to this budget. The assumption that WOTC is using is that the average party has 5 PCs.Each level of the PC supplies a certain value to the xp budget and assuming that each PC is the same level, you simply multiply by 5.Each monster level corresponds to this xp level for the PC. Thus, a level 1 PC provides 100 xp to the budget and in total, a 6 person team has 600xp as its budget.Supposedly, any monster that falls under that budget irrespctive of that level can be beat by the PCs. Thus, for example, the 6 pre-gen characters from DDXP should be able to beat a succubus and 2 kobold skirmishers. So, for the war devil, in a 5 person level 21 party, 3 PCs account for the 12 level 21 minions (4 minions for each) and the xp total for a level 22 war devil + level 20 ice devil + 2 level 17 bone devils should equal the xp provided for 2 level 21 PCs</blockquote>