advancedhero: I started playing Pool of Radiance with just one dwarven Fighter to see how the game works before I created a party, and I was encountering a lot of orcs and kobolds, but only one at a time. So this got me wonder:
1.) Does the party size of the PCs determine the size of the encounters? In other words, do encounters scale to the size of the party, or are they set.
2.) Is is possible to beat Pool of Radiance without using all 6 character slots. Like could I go through the game with only 4 characters without too much trouble?
In pool of radiance the random encounters difficulty is depenant on the total power of the party. I don't remember everything that affects it, but basicly if you make 6 party members and edit your charaters to be maxed out in all stats it will make for some really huge random fights.
