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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 5181335" data-attributes="member: 2011">I agree.The problem is that of encounter challenge. The game is explicitly designed around 5v5. If one makes it 6 PCs vs. 4 NPCs to keep it at 10 miniatures on the board, the NPCs get slaughtered real fast and don't threaten at all. Upping the level of the NPCs can help, but at the same time, it can hinder as the PCs have a harder time hitting (on the other hand, we are talking considerably fewer hit points for 4 higher level NPCs than 6 same level NPCs).The most reasonable challenge solution is to have 6 PCs vs. 6 NPCs (or vs. 4 NPCs and 1 Elite, etc.) to maintain normal game balance. One typically has to have the same relative bag of hit points (i.e. same relative total XP) in order to keep the encounter the same number of rounds length and challenge similar to the 5v5 case.Also, since the NPCs typically have fewer options and fewer encounter type special powers than the PCs, a DM can typically run extra NPCs faster than a player can run his PC, but it's still time consuming.</blockquote>