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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 8006651" data-attributes="member: 6788736">Thats how I tend to structure my encounters mate. A bunch of low CR mooks, with a Boss type, and maybe a Heavy or two.An Orc encounter is much better with half a dozen low CR Orc ooks, an Eye of Gruumsh (with Bless) to buff those Orcs, an Orog 'heavy' or two (or a caster/ high damage + low HP glass cannon type), and an Orc Warboss (or something similar).Your players then have options:1) Target the Mooks. Dangerous in numbers, but they should go down fast.2) Target the creature buffing the mooks via Bless, the Leadership monster ability or similar effects who provides a nasty force multiplier, making the Mooks deadly.3) Target the heavy/ spell caster/ glass cannon to get him out of the fight fast4) Go for the BossI dont know how your FG program/ app works sadly, but what I would suggest you do (if you cant manually change gear, and loadouts etc without a lot of work) is to simply swap out or remove monsters from the encounter.Replacing the (4 Knights, 1 Archer and 1 Mage) with (5 x CR 1/8 Guards and 1 x Veteran), plus the Priest and Boss gets you a lot closer to a reasonable (but still deadly) fight.Give the Priest Bless instead of Spirit guardians and have him cast it on Turn 1 (using a 3rd level slot) on all 5 Guards, and then spam Guiding bolts (granting allies creatures advantage to hit what they hit). He's now a force multiplier that needs to be taken down fast.The Boss should basically be a Heavy in this scenario (high HP, big damage attacks, but weak mental saves).The app should let you do that pretty easy I would think? You're deleting 6 creatures (the Knights, Archer and Mage) and replacing them with 5 Guards and a Veteran, and swapping out a single spell for another one on the Priest.Youll have:a) 5 x CR 1/8 Guardsb) 1 x CR 3 Veteranc) 1 x CR 2 Priestd) 1 x CR 5 Boss (??)The Veteran is your 'heavy', the Priest is your 'force multiplier' the mooks are mooks, and the Boss is the scary thing.</blockquote>

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