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#1 blaqueup Jul 29, 2011 0:34:21	So, I have been diong an ongoing Dark Sun game where I have so far done the Bloodsand Arena and Sand Raiders adventures.  It was five players, but a friend who had moved to California came back into town and she has joined the group.  THe issue is that I was going to move to the Vault of Darom Madar and found that, as I went through my Masterplan notes, the encounters suddenly become a crapload easier in some cases with a sixth player, it seems. I tried just upping the difficulty, but this causes xp budgets to go odd I"m finding, as suddenly they just become more able to stomp later things.  I have been going through and thinking on how to do this and I probably will just reduce xp a bit (I want to keep it at a certain level before moving it over to other plotlines) and such.  I was wondering what are ways folks have done that, specifically in the case of things like the what I gather supposed-to-be hard parts like the assassins, and the solos. Thanks for any help on this, as I am a bit a newb at this and it is proving odd to figure out. And stuff.
#2 naxel Jul 29, 2011 1:12:22	Read over the DMG about the xp budgets (which you may have done) so you'll divvy it up among six; it should work out alright. For published adventures just add an extra monster into the encounter equal to the lowest level non-minion foe in the standard encounter. So if you have four minion silt stalkers at level 2, a human slaver at level 1, and a human defiler at level 2 (for example), then add in an extra slaver to account for your extra PC