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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5017524" data-attributes="member: 82106">And if you use 7 or 8 of them its going to do what to the encounter level? Raise it by 1/10th of a level? I mean really, its below the radar. I say total the XP and award the exact XP, sure, but if someone is obsessing over their encounter being +/- 2% of the budget, they need a new hobby (accounting?). A level N encounter is roughly X experience points, if it sums up between halfway of N-1 and halfway of N+1 then its N by gosh. The system isn't exact and really is by no means exact at all when you consider variations in the party you'll be running the encounter against vs some generic idealization of level N party capability. On top of that you've got terrain and other factors that 4e doesn't even PRETEND to factor into encounter difficulty in any mathematical way. An encounter give or take a couple of minions is simply the same difficulty encounter within the resolution of the encounter generation system. That's why DMG2 just says "Oh, go ahead and throw in a couple more minions at high level" because it could make things more interesting but it is highly unlikely to be a significant difference in the grand scheme of things.</blockquote>