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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jhaelen" data-source="post: 5300036" data-attributes="member: 46713">That's not been my experience. Maybe you've still been thinking in 3e terms?My players had no trouble fighting level 5 monsters with their level 1 pcs. If level 1 monsters are used, they're either supposed to be easy encounters or to support tougher monsters along with minions.Note, that this also matches the DMG advice on designing encounters. The templates use as much as (pc level +7) monsters for hard encounters!It's the total xp budget for an encounter that shouldn't be much higher than (party level +2 or +3). Again, using my players as an example: They had one level 5 encounter when they were level 1 and that one was really tough, and looked like a tpk in the making for a long time. But they prevailed and through excellent teamplay even prevented anyone from dying.So, when looking for opponents for a level 1 party, you can use up to level 5 monsters without any problems. You can go even higher for hard encounters.</blockquote>