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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shin Okada" data-source="post: 1345864" data-attributes="member: 1956">EL calculation is assuming that the party still has enough resources to have a chance to handle that encounter. A party of 4 PCs are assumed to spend about 20% of their resources (spells and hps) when they meet an encounter of the same EL as their level. It is written in P.49 of the DMG.So, in the other word, those pcs are assumed to handle 4 or 5 of such encounters before they rest. Thus, the difficulty to beat the 1st of such encounter and the 4th of such encounter are assumed to be the same. But if they meet 5th or 6th of such encounter before they rest, it will be a tough challenge.DMG is not saying much about higher EL and the resources. And it is hard to say indeed. But basically, EL calculation is assuming that the party still has enough resources to have a chance to handle that encounter. Generally, be careful if you are forcing PCs to meet 4 or more encounters of "challenging" or harder before they rest.By the way, a EL10 encounter is assumed to be just "challenging" for a party of 10th level 4 men party. Usually, "Boss Encounter" of an adventure has EL of "Very Difficult", that is 1 or 4 higher than party level. FYI, If the EL=party level +4, PCs are assumed to have only 50% chance to win. But IMHO often actual PCs have better stats and equipments than the model shown in DMG.</blockquote>