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Message: <blockquote data-quote="msherman" data-source="post: 4504739" data-attributes="member: 77344">I'm planning a big battle in my game where the party starts off aligned with a (solo) monster NPC against a large group of common enemies, but then once the common enemies are dealt with, the monster will switch sides, and turn on the party.Does anyone have any advice for how I should balance that in terms of figuring out how large the force of common enemies should be? Without the ally switching sides, it would be easy -- 5 enemies for the solo plus 5 for the party members. But then that leaves the party pretty much completely out of resources for when the ally turns on them.Figuring the XP reward is tricky, too -- should the party get XP for the whole force? Or should I omit the ones that the ally NPC defeats?</blockquote>