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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dwarmaj" data-source="post: 1487189" data-attributes="member: 1493">I'm currently running a group of PCs through something similar. They had arena type combats against them selves and against some NPCs that I control. The battles were at different levels (5th, 10th, 15th, and now 20th). using the same character, they have to advance the character they started with and get gold appropriate to level. They had two one on ones, PCs vs NPCs, and Free for all at each level.For the higher level battles, winning initiative seems to be key. The most usefull item I've seen is the metamagic rod of Quicken. Getting an extra buff helps a lot.The PCs are:Halfling Cleric/Misstress of ShroudsHalf/Ogre ClericGaeleElven Ranger/Rogue/FighterThe NPCs are:Human Sorcerer/Shadow AdeptHuman Bard/Shadow Dancer/TempestDwarven Druid (mounted combat specialist)Drow Ranger/Peerless ArcherIn the low level (5th & 10th) matches the PCs dominated. In the higher level matches, the Sorcerer and the Druid owned the PCs. Though the Elven ranger did take out the Sorcerer once when she lost initiative and there were no delay/prep rounds.The players seemed to have a blast.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>