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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zelgadas" data-source="post: 4262907" data-attributes="member: 17044">And really, scaling encounters is pretty easy.  If you want to scale all of the encounters down for 3 players, all you have to do is remove X number of XP from each encounter, based on the chart in the DMG, where X is roughly equal to two critters of the encounter's level (so 200 XP for a Level 1 encounter, 250 XP for Level 2, etc.).  Take the Irontooth encounter, for example.  That's a Level 6 encounter for 5 PCs, which is going to be very close to impossible for 3 Level 1 characters.  So you're probably going to want to remove about 500 XP worth of monsters from it.  Since the XP value for each monster is listed right there on the stat block, it's pretty easy to see what you can nix.  For example, you could get rid of two Kobold Skirmishers, one Dragonshield, and five minions.  That leaves nine critters still in the fight, and each critter in the fight is still represented by at least one individual.  The encounter as a whole is worth 750 XP, which is equivalent to a 6th Level encounter for 3 PCs, if you extrapolate the math on the DMG chart.  It'll still be tough, but it'll be manageable, at least.</blockquote>