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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sven D'zell" data-source="post: 5725553" data-attributes="member: 6685078">I know this thread is older, but I wanted to throw in my two cents.  Hopefully someone will replyJanx, when i searched for this thread, I was looking for something numeric, like what you have there, but after reading yours, im just not sure how i feel about it.  Hopefully you can clarify what im misunderstanding.Im running a game now, probably my 4th or 5th one thats actually developed into a long campaign.  I have 4 PCs (actually 3 PCs running 4 characters) who are all at level 4.  Thus, the EPL is (4+4+4+4=16)/4= 4.  In our last session, I put them up against 6 Imps.  this was supposed to be two different encounters, but they kinda did something stupid and let one escape to warn the others so i just hit em from both sides.  Some of them had already been poisoned, and one player got poisoned in the encounter, AND i sneak attacked em with 6 invisible assailants, but, nonetheless, although it took forever for them to kill the sneaky buggers, they really werent in any kind of critically wounded condition when it was all said and done.  I would really call the difficulty they had with this encounter pretty "average".  So in your system does 6 CR2 Imps count as a CR12 encounter?  or do you use the CR as each imps level and divide the 12 by 4 to get an EPL of 3 (which would kinda make sense)?  Because if so it seems like I could put them up against two chain devils and expect them to do ok, maybe??  That seems like its pushing it...I guess I should mention that they have silver weapons, so I guess the devils are losing some degree of CR from that.So, yeah whats everyones take on that?</blockquote>

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