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<blockquote data-quote="Mathew_Freeman" data-source="post: 3936671" data-attributes="member: 1846">As far as I understand it, the designers are working on the basis that four monsters of, say, level 6 are an appropriate challenge to a 6th level party.However, two elite verisions of that same monster would be an equivalent challenge.Presumably, by the math, eight minions or one solo version of the creature would also be appropriate. I can see this working quite well:A couple of minion fights (You're attacked by eight minion goblins!)Then a more serious fight (Four goblins!)The boss fight - (Two elite goblins!)And the unpleasant surprise moment to cap it all (A solo goblin steps out and draws his flaming sword!)As I understand it, all of those encounters (individually) would be the same as a CR6 encounter now. Of course, I don't know how it would work to be attacked by two of those encounters at the same time...They're all GOBLINS. But the different challenges involved in being attacked by different numbers of goblins makes each sort of encounter feel different, and give different sorts of challenges. I really like it - it'll make it easier to set up multiple versions of the same creature with different abilities.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mathew_Freeman, post: 3936671, member: 1846"] As far as I understand it, the designers are working on the basis that [b]four[/b] monsters of, say, level 6 are an appropriate challenge to a 6th level party. However, [b]two[/b] elite verisions of that same monster would be an equivalent challenge. Presumably, by the math, eight minions or one solo version of the creature would also be appropriate. I can see this working quite well: A couple of minion fights (You're attacked by eight minion goblins!) Then a more serious fight (Four goblins!) The boss fight - (Two elite goblins!) And the unpleasant surprise moment to cap it all (A solo goblin steps out and draws his flaming sword!) As I understand it, all of those encounters (individually) would be the same as a CR6 encounter now. Of course, I don't know how it would work to be attacked by two of those encounters at the same time... They're all GOBLINS. But the different challenges involved in being attacked by different numbers of goblins makes each sort of encounter feel different, and give different sorts of challenges. I really like it - it'll make it easier to set up multiple versions of the same creature with different abilities. [/QUOTE]

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