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<blockquote data-quote="mamba" data-source="post: 9016444" data-attributes="member: 7034611">A twig blight is CR 1/8, so you can essentially discount those for your CR at level 5. Not sure why you expected them to put up a fight. Depending on placement a fireball (which is a thing by level 5) can do them all in.A Druid is CR 2, so I sure hope there was more than one when you want the fight to be any kind of challenge (given your example there was one only... so yeah, not a tough fight, to say the least).According to Xanathar's guidelines you should have 2 or 3 Druids and 24 or 36 twig blights. Personally I'd say you can probably go with the higher number for either and be fine...If the encounter is too easy for your group, feel free to make it harder. Consensus is that CR works decently at low levels, but to a degree you have to account for party size and magic items. At your level there should not be too much magic yet, so this leaves party size as the main focus. At 5 chars you probably need to buff the enemies somewhat however.Since this seems to be a consistent issue for you, I do wonder if you play the monsters effectively or whether this contributes to the problem (eg placing them too close together so more than expected get hit by AoE).At these levels encounter balance should be pretty ok still, so it should not just be due to ‘how bad’ 5e encounter math is</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mamba, post: 9016444, member: 7034611"] A twig blight is CR 1/8, so you can essentially discount those for your CR at level 5. Not sure why you expected them to put up a fight. Depending on placement a fireball (which is a thing by level 5) can do them all in. A Druid is CR 2, so I sure hope there was more than one when you want the fight to be any kind of challenge (given your example there was one only... so yeah, not a tough fight, to say the least). According to Xanathar's guidelines you should have 2 or 3 Druids and 24 or 36 twig blights. Personally I'd say you can probably go with the higher number for either and be fine... If the encounter is too easy for your group, feel free to make it harder. Consensus is that CR works decently at low levels, but to a degree you have to account for party size and magic items. At your level there should not be too much magic yet, so this leaves party size as the main focus. At 5 chars you probably need to buff the enemies somewhat however. Since this seems to be a consistent issue for you, I do wonder if you play the monsters effectively or whether this contributes to the problem (eg placing them too close together so more than expected get hit by AoE). At these levels encounter balance should be pretty ok still, so it should not just be due to ‘how bad’ 5e encounter math is [/QUOTE]

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