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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neuroglyph" data-source="post: 4989790" data-attributes="member: 85633">I think your math is solid, based upon the experiences of the characters in your campaign.  For my own campaign I think the "+1 to F/R/W defenses at levels 5, 15, 25" is sufficient. But looking through the Paragon Tier monsters, alot of the NAD attacks are just encounter powers.  That means that your party is going to be subjected to an NAD attack one time per monster during a fight,  and the remaining attacks will be against AC. Obviously, some paragon monsters have NAD attacks on the recharge(5 6), and a few have them as at wills, but that's not common.  While I agree that makes them threatening to a group, adding too many modifiers in seems like it would make it too easy to ignore those types of attacks. I think if you feel the need to house rule the NADs a great deal, it might be due to the monsters you're throwing at the PCs.  As DMs we can choose what to hit the PCs with, and you have the choice whether or not to drop a critter that attacks a weak NAD at will.   Personally, I thinkg it's easier to mod a monster and change an "at will" NAD attack to a "recharge X" or "encounter" than adding too many house rules to the characters.</blockquote>