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<blockquote data-quote="MostlyDm" data-source="post: 7145584" data-attributes="member: 6788973">It's also worth bearing in mind that the game isn't designed for you to face perfectly &quot;level appropriate&quot; challenges at all times. &nbsp;And XP isn't a measure of difficulty... by design, since bounded accuracy means that low level monsters in large enough numbers remain threatening *forever* but XP rewards don't scale linearly. 10 goblins is less XP than a bandit captain, but they're vastly more deadly to a party of 2nd level PCs. I think the goal is for DMs&nbsp; in a 3e/4e mindset of &quot;level appropriate&quot; challenges to get a smooth pace of leveling, sort of like&nbsp; what Fanaelialae said. For everyone else.. big set piece fights with a scary new monster (e.g. Dragon) give a satisfying, memorable chunk of XP, especially if the monster CR is double party level or something suitably lethal. The drudgery of fighting regular mooks – the typical adventuring encounter – drops off in XP value as the party levels and keeps progress a bit slower. A good sandbox would have a nice mix of the two.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MostlyDm, post: 7145584, member: 6788973"] It's also worth bearing in mind that the game isn't designed for you to face perfectly "level appropriate" challenges at all times. And XP isn't a measure of difficulty... by design, since bounded accuracy means that low level monsters in large enough numbers remain threatening *forever* but XP rewards don't scale linearly. 10 goblins is less XP than a bandit captain, but they're vastly more deadly to a party of 2nd level PCs. I think the goal is for DMs in a 3e/4e mindset of "level appropriate" challenges to get a smooth pace of leveling, sort of like what Fanaelialae said. For everyone else.. big set piece fights with a scary new monster (e.g. Dragon) give a satisfying, memorable chunk of XP, especially if the monster CR is double party level or something suitably lethal. The drudgery of fighting regular mooks – the typical adventuring encounter – drops off in XP value as the party levels and keeps progress a bit slower. A good sandbox would have a nice mix of the two. [/QUOTE]

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