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Message: <blockquote data-quote="webrunner" data-source="post: 5121475" data-attributes="member: 63727">I just recently started a new campaign as a DM, and we could only get 4 players: fortunately they all took the right roles (Fighter, Warlord, Wizard, and Ranger).  Other than difficulty in creating level one encounters (higher levels have the luxury of taking a few lower-level monsters.. at level 1 you have to take 1s and 2s with the occasional 3 if they dont have any huge damage or crit effect, so fitting together for less xp as harder) I found combat went at a reasonable clip, although what would have been the 'grindiest' encounters had named elites that ran away at bloodied, or in one case had damaging floor areas so they had a damage bonus.That said, an encounter taking a long time isn't necessarily a bad thing if everyone's having fun.  I took to having less encounters and giving a lot of bonus quest XP at the end.</blockquote>