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Message: <blockquote data-quote="treebear" data-source="post: 6387800" data-attributes="member: 6780526">The problem is the designers keep the CR# times #of creatures the same namely 2. CR2 you get one, CR1/4 you get 8 etc. Cheaper more numerous things be they tanks or monsters will be more effective than fewer more expensive ones when this is the case within reason. Wizards recognized this in encounter building. I think it was the GM's online document for running organized play that they give guidelines and factors for adjusting the experience budget for encounter building, based on the number and experience cost of the creatures. The guidelines up the difficulty of an encounter using factors tied to the number of creatures in the encounter. A single Hill Giant at 1800xp would be a medium encounter for 4 5th level adventures. 10 CR 1/2 Orcs at 100 xp each would be hard encounter for 4 5th level adventures, because the 10 orcs are a "gang" which has a factor of 2.5 making them the equivalent of 2500 xp for purposes of determining encounter difficulty.</blockquote>