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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vandaexpress" data-source="post: 6599092" data-attributes="member: 6790472">I started my party at 2nd level. They still had a very tough time on episode 1. Level 3 would allow them to tackle the challenges without being on the verge of death, which may or may not be a good thing.Like Merric says, I think you should be able to award XP as written without running into any issues. Just compare the party's level to where the milestone recommendations put them at the end of each chapter, and if it's off, adjust xp accordingly if you desire. Once they get out of the lower levels, the encounters shouldn't be dramatically harder/easier if they're a level higher or lower than they should be. Especially since the as-written encounter balancing is already a little sketch at times.If you find things are going too easily for the party, add more monsters to each encounter until you reach the target difficulty.I used to stress out a lot about xp budgeting for encounters, etc but the more I play, the more I realize that there's quite a bit of wiggle room and the game won't break.</blockquote>