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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 5556805" data-attributes="member: 13966">Also........  Blink Dogs and Displacer Beasts are supposed to be enemies.  A pack of Blink Dogs would maul the lone Displacer Beast and leave the PCs alone.As far as the large-party advice goes, I'd just echo what some others have said about just increasing the number of opponents or adding terrain/weather/obstacle/trap complications to keep things suitably challenging but not overpowering.  Using a single opponent of moderately higher CR is also fine, but don't throw anything too strong at them; 8 low-level PCs would probably get destroyed by a single monster of twice their individual levels in CR (like a young adult green dragon against 8 PCs of 6th-level; it would just wipe the floor with them by virtue of its high fear DC, high breath weapon damage, few hundred HP, great save bonuses, high AC, flight, damage reduction, and spells; all it takes is one Mage Armor or Shield spell and the dragon would be virtually invulnerable to 6th-level PCs).And remember that some monsters' CR is based on their special abilities; an invisible monster is given its CR based on the likelihood that PCs of that level may have See Invisibility spells or Dust of Appearance or Glitterdust or Faerie Fire, for example, while a Swarm is given its CR based on the likelihood that PCs of that level may have enough area-attack spells or whatnot to destroy it.</blockquote>