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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OnlineDM" data-source="post: 5414409" data-attributes="member: 90804">Hmm.  Well, if I were in your shoes, I would say, "I'm the dungeon master here, and I've decided that this will be a campaign for X-level characters."  Pick a starting level and go with it.Having to make encounters flexible for parties of varying level is much harder than flexibility in party size.  If you ever look at a Living Forgotten Realms adventure, you'll see that they're for characters in a four-level band (1-4, 4-7, etc.).  Within those adventures, players are given the option of playing at low-level (generally if the characters are at the low end of the band) or high-level.The main difference between the low and high versions is the level of the monsters.  For most encounters, the high-level monsters are just leveled-up versions of the low-level monsters.  So, their hit points are higher, their defenses are all 2 better, damage is 1 better, attack bonuses are 2 better, initiative and skills are 1 better.These adventures also include scaling instructions.  Each encounter is written for 5 PC party, but there are instructions for scaling the encounter for 4 or 6 PCs (remove one Monster X, add two Monster Y, etc.). The approach I would take, if it were my own campaign, would be to pick a level, pick monsters appropriate for that level, and scale the number of monsters to the number of PCs.  Write the encounters with a certain party size in mind, and make notes about which monsters you would add or remove for different sizes of party.</blockquote>

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