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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 4778257" data-attributes="member: 386">Why use a wyvern?  Why not use a cave bear?  (Both are 500xp on their own.)Could this be solved by making sure that your gameworld keeps the possibility for this sort of grind in check?[sblock=An example]Eg. There are wyverns in your world!  They're cool, you love them.  So you open up the MM and see - Level 10 Skirmisher.  That means a single encounter with one of these guys isn't going to be fun.  But an encounter with a number of these guys probably will be.In your hex, you write down: "A flight of 7 wyverns roost on top of a pillar of stone.  PCs who make a DC 20 Perception check (modified by visibility conditions) can spot the wyverns circling around it."In another hex, you want to have a mean old bear.  You open up the MM - cave bear, level 6 elite brute.  Cool.  He lives there by himself.  Maybe a nearby gnome talks to him and gives him honey to keep him off his back.[/sblock]But - what if the level 3 PCs spot the wyverns and come up with some kind of plan to lure 6 away?  I don't know what that plan would be, but let's say it works and leaves one wyvern behind at full health.The level 3 PCs are in for a grindy fight.I think the best solution is to recognize that the combat mechanics were not designed for this.  I think it would be wrong to use them to resolve this fight.  Some other kind of mechanic is probably best.A skill challenge?  (A level 10, complexity 1 skill challenge is worth as much XP as the lone wyvern.)</blockquote>

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