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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goken100" data-source="post: 3864966" data-attributes="member: 42968">Bad news: monsters' limited usefulness?While this seems reasonable at first glance, I'm a bit nervous about the implications.We've been promised that mosters' usefulness does not begin and end with an exact level match with the party, and there there's a quick and easy way to use higher or lower level monsters in a balanced encounter.  I take this to mean there's some formula like: 1 20th level moster = 4 17th level monstersHowever, if this formula were really effective, there wouldn't be any need for the Minion, Elite, and Solo distinctions (the Beholder would just be X levels higher instead of being a "Solo" monster).  That suggests that monsters really WON'T be a great match at unequal levels to the party (even if there is a suggested way to calculate it).</blockquote>