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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blackbrrd" data-source="post: 5162441" data-attributes="member: 63962">Now this idea is probably a very good one. It can't be done all the time, but maybe half the time would work out... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Usually it's a bad idea to string the monsters along, it means the characters are only fighting parts of the encounter at a time. In other words, making it easier.On the other hand, since I don't really care about the xp budget for any other reasons than trying to have an inkling of how difficult the encounter will be, I can start the encounter with 5 monsters and add 2 monsters in round 2 and 3. This means that instead of starting at 7 monsters and going down as time goes by, I will probably start at 5 - and stay at 5 for the three first rounds.The added bonus of this is that the "new" monsters won't have any status effects on them allowing them to wreck havoc where I want them to.Additionally since I am only controlling 5 monsters at a time, the rounds will be pretty quick.</blockquote>