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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Uruush" data-source="post: 4973549" data-attributes="member: 42140">A bit off topic, but how do you determine +33% damage relatively quickly?  (or not quickly)  Do you make all your monsters ahead of time?A year of experience with 4E has me leaning towards this for a new Paragon game:All opponents -2/-3/-4 to all defenses. (by tier)    All opponents +2/+3/+4 damage to all attacks. (by tier)Minions typically take 2 hits to take out (bloodied on first hit) unless critically hit.  Damage done by a Controller or a Daily Power may also take them out (they must Save).   Elite and Solo monsters can and often will pay 10% of their full hit point value to either recharge encounter powers or to attempt Saves at the beginning of their turns instead of the end.***So, I'm upping the damage and lowering the defenses but not lowering the HP (except lowering the defenses has a similar effect while also allowing the players to miss less often)  Expertise feats are also banned so the defense lowering is effectively more like -1/-2/-3.Except in the case of Elites and Solos where I'm intending to effectively lower the hitpoints of those by about 80% most of the time to either guarantee a recharge for an interesting Encounter attack that the dice won't seem to let me recharge or to mitigate  some ridiculous stun/daze/prone-lock against a Solo.With opponents doing higher damage I also expect I might have a foe or two fewer in many combats which is like fewer hitpoints to chew through. And to supplement these smaller numbers with my toughened minions.I'm using a flat number by tier because that's really easy for me, but I'm curious about your 33%.</blockquote>

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