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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6709382" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Hmmm. You'd know better than I would about your playing style, but you have two very consistent classes up there (rogue and ranger) and three bursty-ish classes, two of which are bursty on a long rest and one on a short rest (Monkalock). And I'm not sure how to classify your Fighter/Paladin without seeing him in action. I think if I were trying to come up with mechanical guidelines, the way I'd do it is to reduce the effective level of the bursty characters as the day goes on. If the Sorcerer is level 11, and he is known to nova early and often, then maybe I'd count him as level 15 in computations for early in the day, petering down to level 8 or 9 at the end of the day when he is mostly depleted. The rogue will be exactly level 11 all day long, and the ranger probably will be too unless he relies a lot on his spells.Unfortunately, my favorite encounter-building tool (Kobold.com) does not support heterogenous party levels so it's not easy to play with changing levels this way.I honestly think the best way for you to proceed is to just make sure you use up the whole daily encounter budget, and assume that the short/long rest-focused characters will even things out in the end between themselves, since the design intent is for them to be fairly balanced. Don't worry so much about the label on any individual fight and focus more on the deadliness of the whole sequence of encounters.BTW, one observation: if you want to panic players, make monsters that fail morale checks go berserk instead of fleeing or fighting to the death. That is, make them change their behavior patterns, flee the guy who's been beating on them with a stick, and charge someone completely different on the back lines like the wizard (ignoring all the opportunity attacks it takes in the process). It may not make the encounter any harder ultimately but it certainly changes things up and forces the wizard to respond (e.g. Disengage or Blade Ward instead of continuing to hurl fireballs)--and the key to a non-boring combat is to have more decision points within it.</blockquote>

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