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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ExploderWizard" data-source="post: 6690183" data-attributes="member: 66434">There isn't a real formula for DM side adjustments. You just have look at the party and what it is capable of and guesstimate. Certain creature traits, such as resistance or even immunity to normal weapon attacks are meaningless when figuring out challenges for a party who are all outfitted with magic weapons. Large numbers of PCs with magic weapons can put the hurt on quite a bit that is well above the CR they can supposedly handle. For such parties, in order for monsters to be really tough and scary, think about what would the equivalent of the PCs NOT having magic items (or maybe only a couple characters having them) would be. For example lets say you had a 7th level party and everyone had a couple magic items each. Only two characters have a +2 weapon. A big nasty for this party might be resistant or immune to magic below the 3rd level and immune to damage from weapons that were lesser than rare in quality. The group may only have a handful of spells at that level that will work on such an enemy and only a couple of party members can engage the creature with weapons. Those factors mean that if it is reasonably tough HP wise then it will last quite a while. Combine that bad boy with servitors or minions of a more standard variety and you have a nice tough encounter for this group, even very deadly if it is encountered after the party has used up most or all of their highest level spell slots. The more options that are turned on for the players to use means more out of the box thinking and modifying the DM needs to do to maintain the same level of challenge.</blockquote>

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