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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 6599521" data-attributes="member: 9037">I very much disagree with this. It really depends on the party how many of the party there is and what their strengths are. Right now I am running Hoard of the Dragon Queen and I am finding with seven players with three of them power gamers if I don't up the hit points of some of the creatures they are cake walking through the encounters and a cake walk can be fun but not if it is every encounter. More is not always the answer. If I have two giants and I up the hit points that is still only two giants attacking the party if I up to say three or four then there is a possibility that I have over powered the encounter because now instead of two attacking the party there is more. It really depends I ran a published encounter now those are written for a party of four with the basics covered. I had a party of six. One of the suggestions is to up the challenge is to add more monsters.  In this case they were undead and we didn't have a cleric. Adding more monsters would have overwhelmed the party because they had no way to turn some of the them which the module assumed could happen. With more undead attacking that raised the chance of someone failing  save a d being paralyzed. So I gave then more hit points which made it the perfect challenge for my party. When running an encounter it is not just how many hit points the monsters have but what special abilities do they have. You need to take those special abilities in consideration as well.</blockquote>

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