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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5879159" data-attributes="member: 2067">To try to help clarify:4e builds encounters with an assumed XP budget that works out to 1 equal-leveled standard critter per PC. You can then swap these critters around: four minions per standard critter, or one solo critter per four standards, or one elite per two.5e has mentioned building adventures in a way similar to how 4e builds encounters: an XP budget, roughly measuring challenge. That's a bit of a problem because an encounter with one creature, alone, is going to be easier than an encounter with a goup of them, and so should, concievably, be worth different XP, or at least present a different challenge. The idea proposed here, as a fix to that problem, is to call out creatures that are meant to be encountered in a group, or meant to be encountered alone with a designator similar to how 4e called out minions and solos and elites.This way, your basic goblin, if he is designated a 'group' monster, can be designed to roughly provide a given challenge in a group, but might not provide the same challenge when walking along alone. By contrast, your basic beholder, if he is designed as a 'loner' monster, can be designed to provide a challenge by itself, without a group.It might be a little redundant with 4e's power roles, come to think, but it's concept is a little different, mostly in scope and strategy: a 'group' monster is made to work with other group monsters, and will be worth its XP only in a group -- if encountered alone, it might be very easy for its XP. A 'loner' monster is made to work alone, and will be worth its XP when by itself -- if encountered with a group, its reward might be less for the effort than it would otherwise be. Anyway, just spitballing solutions. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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