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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hong" data-source="post: 3756533" data-attributes="member: 537">Huh?I had mooks too. In one fight I had an 11th level necromancer summon up about 20 skeletons (which I knew perfectly well would be completely useless); in another fight, the group met 20 wights. The fun in mooks is not in the tactical challenge, but in the opportunities for badassitude. Think Legolas and Gimli competing to see how many orcs they could kill. For the wight encounter, I amused myself by betting on how many rounds it would take the PCs to kill them all (and move on to the two 10th level vampires, who were much more dangerous).Now if you're going to meet 20 skeletons or wights in EVERY fight, then that could certainly become boring. But they also had fights with, for example, ~12 8th level thugs, who while individually outclassed, could still lay down some serious hurt. Just because a fight involves large numbers doesn't mean there's automatically no serious threat.Nope. Note the dragon shaman, and the crusader can also heal in a pinch. What's more, most of the time I only had one encounter per day so even the per-day stuff didn't matter.</blockquote>