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<blockquote data-quote="Marasmusine" data-source="post: 4354880" data-attributes="member: 30319">I ran a game with two PCs (tiefling cleric and gnoll fighter, both level 1), three encounters total; dire rat with four giant rat minions, two gnome lurkers and finally a drake needlefang swarm in a room with a pit trap. They managed just by the skin of their teeth with only short rests. I don't think it would have worked without the cleric.A friend joined in for the next adventure (same PCs as above at level 2 plus a lizardfolk ranger at level 1) First three encounters - 2 stormclaw scorpions + giant scorpion minions, then human guard with 7 human rabble minions, then three bandits - were all handled easily, no daily or APs were needed. I wanted a larger fight for the final battle of the session; with 10 rabble minions backed by up a human wizard. To even the odds, the gnoll player had intimidated a small group of locals to form a militia (as minions! Which pleased that player a great deal and cheered when they performed well against the rabble.) Again, victory seemed pretty easy (although the story won't let them have an extended rest just yet.)In summary, there was a big difficulty difference between 2 and 3 players. With 3 I was perhaps being &quot;soft&quot; with the encounters but now I'm not worried about being a bit tougher. The use of lots of minions was popular with the players. I had arranged the terrain rather in the PCs favour, but there was still plenty of flanking. The use of minions on the player's side was also a hit; the gnoll got to use her intimidate skill to order them around and they evened out the battle numbers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marasmusine, post: 4354880, member: 30319"] I ran a game with two PCs (tiefling cleric and gnoll fighter, both level 1), three encounters total; dire rat with four giant rat minions, two gnome lurkers and finally a drake needlefang swarm in a room with a pit trap. They managed just by the skin of their teeth with only short rests. I don't think it would have worked without the cleric. A friend joined in for the next adventure (same PCs as above at level 2 plus a lizardfolk ranger at level 1) First three encounters - 2 stormclaw scorpions + giant scorpion minions, then human guard with 7 human rabble minions, then three bandits - were all handled easily, no daily or APs were needed. I wanted a larger fight for the final battle of the session; with 10 rabble minions backed by up a human wizard. To even the odds, the gnoll player had intimidated a small group of locals to form a militia (as minions! Which pleased that player a great deal and cheered when they performed well against the rabble.) Again, victory seemed pretty easy (although the story won't let them have an extended rest just yet.) In summary, there was a big difficulty difference between 2 and 3 players. With 3 I was perhaps being "soft" with the encounters but now I'm not worried about being a bit tougher. The use of lots of minions was popular with the players. I had arranged the terrain rather in the PCs favour, but there was still plenty of flanking. The use of minions on the player's side was also a hit; the gnoll got to use her intimidate skill to order them around and they evened out the battle numbers. [/QUOTE]

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