Good reply, thanks. Have a whole slew of content I plan to migrate from my home brew campaign world over into Basic Fantasy. Just trying to get a feel for how GM's approach monster creature from a stand point of encountering a standard party.

1 HD = 1 Level? No worries killing the players or letting them die or watching them die, etc, etc. More concerned with game mechanics of using an encounter to draw them further into the story etc. Mechanically it's always fun watching the party gain that "feeling of success" and the inerti...

Not exactly sure what you are asking, but encounters in BFRPG games aren't usually balanced. You may be able to mow though the opponents or you may encounter in a first level dungeon a vampire riding on a dragons back. Its up to the party to decide whether its time to fight or time to take flight. ...

May have missed it as I only have a few days in so far of reading materials.

Is there a particular good reason about balancing "encounters" or creation of "monsters/NPC's" from scratch?

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