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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kid Charlemagne" data-source="post: 4364326" data-attributes="member: 93">I agree with Darklone - I also have 8 PC's, and 3 of them have the Leadership feat.  I tend to build my encounters by doubling the number of monsters, essentially building two EL X encounters and slapping them together.  They're 12th level right now, IIRC, and so I'd use two CR 12 monsters before upping the CR of one monster for just the reason you encountered.I also personally like having lots of baddies running around - some of whom may be very weak, but serve to distract and eat up actions by the PC's.  In my last session, the PC's had eight or so Dark Creepers running around (CR 3 with 5 hp).  These little guys couldn't do much by themselves, but they could provide flanking, grab important unattended items and run off with them, call for help, etc.</blockquote>