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<blockquote data-quote="ExploderWizard" data-source="post: 4794987" data-attributes="member: 66434">I don't have much experience with 4E from the DM side of the screen but there are some key concepts that can be applied to any edition.One thing that helps with splitting party focus is having multiple opponents with the following qualities:&nbsp;1) An amount of damage, and/or nasty side effects thats hard to ignore. The damage/effect has to be very dangerous relative to the characters in the span of one round or two at the most.&nbsp;2) Defenses that are not to difficult to overcome. If just hitting the things is a PITA then of course the PC's need to gang up to have a slight chance of putting at least one down.&nbsp;3) A somewhat low pool of hit points. Overall, monsters in 4E have a lot of hitpoints which really does encourage the single target focus method. Have the critters with a HP pool that even a non-striker can put down in 1-2 rounds.&nbsp;&nbsp;So if PC's see that the monsters: A- are a real dangerous threat short term, B- are kind of easy to hit, and C- don't take forever to grind down even with a single PC, then splitting focus becomes the smart way to combat the enemy. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="ExploderWizard, post: 4794987, member: 66434"] I don't have much experience with 4E from the DM side of the screen but there are some key concepts that can be applied to any edition. One thing that helps with splitting party focus is having multiple opponents with the following qualities: 1) An amount of damage, and/or nasty side effects thats hard to ignore. The damage/effect has to be very dangerous relative to the characters in the span of one round or two at the most. 2) Defenses that are not to difficult to overcome. If just hitting the things is a PITA then of course the PC's need to gang up to have a slight chance of putting at least one down. 3) A somewhat low pool of hit points. Overall, monsters in 4E have a lot of hitpoints which really does encourage the single target focus method. Have the critters with a HP pool that even a non-striker can put down in 1-2 rounds. So if PC's see that the monsters: A- are a real dangerous threat short term, B- are kind of easy to hit, and C- don't take forever to grind down even with a single PC, then splitting focus becomes the smart way to combat the enemy. ;) [/QUOTE]

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