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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9661924" data-attributes="member: 7006">Multi-wave encounters are also usually a great time to bring out whatever &quot;minion&quot; rules you might use-- whether that's 4E style where every creature has just 1 hit point... or handfuls of very low-HP creatures thrown amongst the &quot;hero&quot; monsters.&nbsp; Especially useful if you have casters with AoE spells they never get to wipe out huge swathes of enemies at once with, or martials with Cleave-like abilities that can actually one-shot an enemy and pass through the attack to the next (or abilities that allow you to attack everyone adjacent to the PC for instance.)Having a wave of like 30 enemies on the board rushing the characters-- but all of whom can get mowed down with single attacks in like one round or two-- helps create that &quot;multi-wave effect&quot; while not raising the deadliness to uncontrollable levels (unless of course the players DON'T use their abilities to mow them all down and then they get zerg-rushed.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9661924, member: 7006"] Multi-wave encounters are also usually a great time to bring out whatever "minion" rules you might use-- whether that's 4E style where every creature has just 1 hit point... or handfuls of very low-HP creatures thrown amongst the "hero" monsters. Especially useful if you have casters with AoE spells they never get to wipe out huge swathes of enemies at once with, or martials with Cleave-like abilities that can actually one-shot an enemy and pass through the attack to the next (or abilities that allow you to attack everyone adjacent to the PC for instance.) Having a wave of like 30 enemies on the board rushing the characters-- but all of whom can get mowed down with single attacks in like one round or two-- helps create that "multi-wave effect" while not raising the deadliness to uncontrollable levels (unless of course the players DON'T use their abilities to mow them all down and then they get zerg-rushed.) [/QUOTE]

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