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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kalani" data-source="post: 6780542" data-attributes="member: 88085">There is nothing stopping players from running through lower level quests. With that being said, the DM is expected to keep the difficulty as intended (whether they do or not however, is another story). As such, this might mean increasing the number of creatures to a ridiculous rate (depending on party level), as DMs cannot substitute creatures with more powerful alternatives (only add more of the same). Eventually, you hit a saturation point where more creatures really don't make the encounter more difficult (only a war of attrition). This point varies from encounter to encounter, but once it is reached - you basically hit the point where the DM cannot maintain the intended difficulty, and at this point - higher level characters should probably not participate in the encounter.The encounter in question however, appears balanced for a party of 5th-6th level characters. I ran through it at 4th level, and it was quite difficult and almost resulted in a TPK (despite having well prepared and highly skilled players). I was forced to use 3 of my 5 healing potions that fight. Admittedly, we didn't have anyone with Turn Undead (which would have made it that much easier), as our healer was a druid.</blockquote>