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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kalendraf" data-source="post: 1662222" data-attributes="member: 3433">I punched in your party's levels (3 @ 6th, 4 @ 5th - I'm assuming aasimar gets +1 ECL) and the calculator indicates they are approximately an EL 7 party (actually 7.1).  Thus, most EL 7 encounters should be fairly safe.  EL 6 and below stuff will be progressively easier while encounters much above EL 9 could be pretty deadly.With a cleric, bard and 2 sorcs, they should have the spellcasting angle covered.  Between the barbarian, twf ranger and cleric, they should have a decent melee presence, and an archer ranger gives them a ranged option as well.  I don't see any immediate imbalance issues with the party.  Thus, the numbers suggested by the calculator might hold more true for this group than some others I've encountered.FYI, the quick ad-hoc scaling method I normally use for larger parties is to increase the number of minions on a percentage basis similar to the party size.  For a party of 6 characters (50% larger than normal), I toss 50% extra minions at them.  I define minions as any encounter of 2 or more identical creatures.  The other option is named foes (or in some cases single monsters).  These I usually increase HD or levels as appropriate.  That involves more work in many cases, but isn't terribly difficult to do.  For a mixed encounter, you can do both.  For example, an encounter with an ogre plus 2 bugbears (EL 5.5) could be bumped by making it 4 bugbears with an ogre barbarian1 (raising to an EL 7.2).</blockquote>

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