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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blackbrrd" data-source="post: 5162440" data-attributes="member: 63962">Interesting regarding the thinking about slower leveling. Let's look at some numbersAt level 7-30 and above they will be two levels behind. The characters hit chance will have gone from about 55% to 45% and the monsters hit chance gone from 55% to 65%. In other words, the DPR of the characters is down to about 81% and the monsters DPR are up to about 118%.To calculate the DPR of the party it goes about like this: 81% multiplied by 7/5 = 114% the DPR of a party two levels higher with 5 characters. Their HP is at level about 10% lower around level 7 and about 5% around level 30. So, 93% multiplied by 7/5 = 130% of the HP of a party two levels higher with 5 characters.The monsters are doing more damage, but the characters have a larger HP pool, so we get that the characters are about 10% tougher. Individually they are less tough though and more prone to focus fire.On the other hand, the characters are doing more damage, compared to the monster hp. Adjusted for the to-hit chance the monsters are about 13% less tough.The math above is a bit iffy, but as it looks to me, the party gets more hp and damage if I do it this way. There are a lot more variables than the ones I have used above, but I am guessing they about even out. (For instance shorter encounters lets you use a higher percentage of daily/encounter powers over at-will powers, but at the same time, being lower level gives you more encounter/daily powers to use)Another way I could do it is to increase the monsters defenses and attacks by 2 (the level difference the above suggestion gives) and increase the damage by about 2.I am not a big fan of increasing encounters per day - it's fun to use your dailies, and additionally nearly all the encounters have some meaning now. Adding "random" encounters is probably not going to add much to the story.What I could do is to allow "daily" rests every 5 encounters and not let it depend on resting at all. It is a bit arbitrary and the classes that depends on their dailies like the barbarian and the wizard will take quite a hit.Bah, when I think of it, it's not like I am not making them burn healing surges... I would probably have to make a house rule that they could pool their healing surges. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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