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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 8821023" data-attributes="member: 3400">The DM in one of our alternate Thursday night games balances encounters based on the number of players who show up. I do a bit of the same. So it's helpful to know before the session starts who's going to make it so we have a little time.For a situation in which there are a few hard core regulars and a couple of players who are sometimes there, consider balancing the encounter based on both potential turnouts - 1) the regulars, 2) the full group. Then run the one that matches the turnout. For me, it tends to be a question of having a few more enemy tokens out on the Roll20 map on the GM layer that I can add to the encounter for the larger group. And/or maybe more hit points for major enemies.And, yeah, as DM, I don't sweat the ego thing. I'm the Washington Generals to the players' Harlem Globetrotters. I'm there to give them a spirited game but I'm expecting them to beat me.</blockquote>