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<blockquote data-quote="Ryujin" data-source="post: 5013146" data-attributes="member: 27897">Over the weekend I DMed a 3 member party that only had a Wizard that was multiclassed into Cleric for healing. The fourth member, who plays a Paladin, couldn't make it. It was a short Living Forgotten Realms adventure that only had two combat encounters, and I had scaled it for level 3 and only the three available characters. I was striving for a very difficult setup that would push them heavily.Combat was rather bloody and I had them on the ropes through the whole thing. By the end of it there were no dailies left and the characters all had only two or three healing surges left. I debated tossing in an off-the-cuff and less difficult third encounter, to make it truly memorable, but thought better of it. It likely would have resulted in a TPK, given what they had left.You have to give serious consideration before tossing in things like opponent healing, buffing, and status effect attacks that will tend to draw out combat, if the party has no healing. That sort of thing will tend to kill them off by attrition. As others have also said, items and potions will assist in keeping them going. There will be a cost though. I think that my own preference would be to provide them with &quot;Sancho the Cleric&quot;, to keep them up.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ryujin, post: 5013146, member: 27897"] Over the weekend I DMed a 3 member party that only had a Wizard that was multiclassed into Cleric for healing. The fourth member, who plays a Paladin, couldn't make it. It was a short Living Forgotten Realms adventure that only had two combat encounters, and I had scaled it for level 3 and only the three available characters. I was striving for a very difficult setup that would push them heavily. Combat was rather bloody and I had them on the ropes through the whole thing. By the end of it there were no dailies left and the characters all had only two or three healing surges left. I debated tossing in an off-the-cuff and less difficult third encounter, to make it truly memorable, but thought better of it. It likely would have resulted in a TPK, given what they had left. You have to give serious consideration before tossing in things like opponent healing, buffing, and status effect attacks that will tend to draw out combat, if the party has no healing. That sort of thing will tend to kill them off by attrition. As others have also said, items and potions will assist in keeping them going. There will be a cost though. I think that my own preference would be to provide them with "Sancho the Cleric", to keep them up. [/QUOTE]

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