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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 3908704" data-attributes="member: 22779">Actually, that's not true.&nbsp; The DMG does not suggest fights of 4 or more mobs at a time.&nbsp; It actually states that large numbers badly skew the EL of an encounter, making it very difficult to judge the difficulty of a fight.3e is based around small groups of bad guys fighting the party.&nbsp; Once you get beyond about 4 bad guys in a given encounter, you have to dig down so low in the CR range to make an appropriate EL encounter that the monsters are no longer a thread.&nbsp; After all, 10 CR 1 monsters is an EL 7 encounter, but, a 7th level party is going to obliterate the encounter, whereas a pair of trolls is also an EL 7 encounter and is a much more effective challenge to a 7th level party.Heck, the designers of 3e have specifically stated that 3e is based around small numbers of baddies.&nbsp; That's one of the things they want to change in 4e.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 3908704, member: 22779"] Actually, that's not true. The DMG does not suggest fights of 4 or more mobs at a time. It actually states that large numbers badly skew the EL of an encounter, making it very difficult to judge the difficulty of a fight. 3e is based around small groups of bad guys fighting the party. Once you get beyond about 4 bad guys in a given encounter, you have to dig down so low in the CR range to make an appropriate EL encounter that the monsters are no longer a thread. After all, 10 CR 1 monsters is an EL 7 encounter, but, a 7th level party is going to obliterate the encounter, whereas a pair of trolls is also an EL 7 encounter and is a much more effective challenge to a 7th level party. Heck, the designers of 3e have specifically stated that 3e is based around small numbers of baddies. That's one of the things they want to change in 4e. [/QUOTE]

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