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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6107808" data-attributes="member: 37579">There are 143 monsters in the book. They cannot change the damage numbers, defences, xp totals, and general math for each and every package. It's simply not an effective use of time when they could change the class numbers - classes they're modifying anyway - for the same effect. Except a small annoying goblin should be doing less damage than a burly human fighter. They're a pest monster. There are monsters that do damage equivalent to a PC. Orcs are comparable. And there are monsters that do much more damage than a PC. Monsters have a greater range than PCs. So you can have that moderate fight of eight goblins against four PCs. This doesn't change regardless of starting hp. There'll always be monsters that can take a PC apart with a good hit in a single round and ones that need five or six hits. You needed a lot of minions to really hurt a PC in 4e.So then use seven goblin bosses. Or a hobgoblin leader with six goblins as back-up.</blockquote>