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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 3820116" data-attributes="member: 710">I guess the goal is this:A fight against dozens of mooks, that still have a reasonable chance of hurting and possibly overpowering the PCs (at least one of them), but still favouring the PCs if they fight smart enough. (a typical EL = PL to PL +2 encounter in 3rd Edition). That's pretty difficult to pull off in 3rd Edition. It might also not be really that what happened in 1st Edition (I don't know, I began with 3rd edition).In 3rd edition, it will probably fail because to get to the desired encounter level with a dozen &quot;mooks&quot;, you would need mooks with a CR 5 points below the partys. Unless they are all equipped with Wands of Magical Missiles, they are probably incapable of hurting the PCs except when rolling natural 20s, and will probably &quot;power-attacked&quot; to death due to their low ACs, and fail most saves against spells from the caster... I suspect that the attack and AC difference in 1st edition between 1st level to 6th level monster wasn't as high as in 3rd edition...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 3820116, member: 710"] I guess the goal is this: A fight against dozens of mooks, that still have a reasonable chance of hurting and possibly overpowering the PCs (at least one of them), but still favouring the PCs if they fight smart enough. (a typical EL = PL to PL +2 encounter in 3rd Edition). That's pretty difficult to pull off in 3rd Edition. It might also not be really that what happened in 1st Edition (I don't know, I began with 3rd edition). In 3rd edition, it will probably fail because to get to the desired encounter level with a dozen "mooks", you would need mooks with a CR 5 points below the partys. Unless they are all equipped with Wands of Magical Missiles, they are probably incapable of hurting the PCs except when rolling natural 20s, and will probably "power-attacked" to death due to their low ACs, and fail most saves against spells from the caster... I suspect that the attack and AC difference in 1st edition between 1st level to 6th level monster wasn't as high as in 3rd edition... [/QUOTE]

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