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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8859925" data-attributes="member: 6801845">The encounter was designed to be a medium encounter and yes, it worked just fine.  Even a little bit better than expected because the CR 7 wizard managed to dominate the paladin (I rolled to see which fighter type she dominated) and get in a couple of fireballs by standing back and ducking back under cover.  The sorcerer and one of the fighters got grappled and stunned.  I almost got a chance to polymorph the barbarian into a chicken before running away.  Not that the chicken thing would have changed the tide of combat at that point, but it would have been funny. So even though the enemy was outmatched they were strategic in their attacks. Maybe it didn't bother you that "the exact same orc" suddenly went from a + 9 to hit to a +14, it bothered me.  Why would that orc that had a hard time hitting a lower level PC and then suddenly be better at hitting if the target is harder to hit?  It felt like all the gains you made were just artificial to a large degree.  If that doesn't bother you, it doesn't.   <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" title="Man shrugging    :man_shrugging:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /> If I wanted throw an orc horde against my level 17 group I still can, although I would use mob rules to speed up combat.  They would still be exactly the same orcs though.</blockquote>

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