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<blockquote data-quote="Jhaelen" data-source="post: 4752429" data-attributes="member: 46713">This is a problem I have to deal with regularly. My group consists of nine players, but typically only 5-6 show up for a given session. So I do not know beforehand what party setup I'm going to have and it can and probably will change several times within the same adventure (we're dealing with missing characters by simply having them fade into the background).What I _will_ adjust is the number of monsters in an encounter if the number of characters is noticably lower (or higher!) than what I expected when creating the encounter.What I will not adjust is the nature of the encounter or the monster types. I'm always trying to have a good mix of all monster types. Right before the session starts, I'll point out obvious missing roles, like: &quot;remember, you don't have anyone with rogue or skill-monkey today&quot; or &quot;today you gotta be extra careful: no cleric!&quot;. Then I expect my players to adjust their tactics accordingly.And it works pretty well. It took them awhile to figure it out, but as of now, they've made sure they can replace any character in a pinch. They've bought a couple of potions, scrolls and wands and generally get more careful and creative.I recently had great fun watching them struggle their way through a nasty encounter-trap without any trapfinding/disable device support.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jhaelen, post: 4752429, member: 46713"] This is a problem I have to deal with regularly. My group consists of nine players, but typically only 5-6 show up for a given session. So I do not know beforehand what party setup I'm going to have and it can and probably will change several times within the same adventure (we're dealing with missing characters by simply having them fade into the background). What I _will_ adjust is the number of monsters in an encounter if the number of characters is noticably lower (or higher!) than what I expected when creating the encounter. What I will not adjust is the nature of the encounter or the monster types. I'm always trying to have a good mix of all monster types. Right before the session starts, I'll point out obvious missing roles, like: "remember, you don't have anyone with rogue or skill-monkey today" or "today you gotta be extra careful: no cleric!". Then I expect my players to adjust their tactics accordingly. And it works pretty well. It took them awhile to figure it out, but as of now, they've made sure they can replace any character in a pinch. They've bought a couple of potions, scrolls and wands and generally get more careful and creative. I recently had great fun watching them struggle their way through a nasty encounter-trap without any trapfinding/disable device support. [/QUOTE]

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