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I’m a first time dm preparing to run lmop. I’m thinking of changing the Wyvern Tour enemies to something more connected to my player’s backstory and throwing the orc scouts at them on their way back from the banshee. I was looking up the encounter difficulty to determine 1) how hard to make my new enemies and 2) how to buff the orc encounter if I take the ogre away as I don’t think the orcs should be dragging an ogre with them on raids. For a party of 4, even at level 4, the orcs are considered a deadly encounter even without the ogre! My impression was that Wyvern Tor is generally played at level 3. Is this a tpk? How did your party handle the encounter?