Chaos Scar Encounter #1

And So It Begins...

Reading through the adventure Sunday morning, and I started jotting down how I wanted to tone up the first encounter in the series. The original encounter is a straight forward 1st level encounter with an XP budget of 526 points.  My players I am running for currently have a party of five fifth level adventurers.  So based on this I am adding four levels to the encounter and bring my XP budget up to at least 1,000 points.

In reading through the tactics and looking at the maps, I am considering several options for bringing the encounter level up, while also making the monsters a bit more "non-standard". In the original encounter the players are confronted with an even mix of Bullywug Croakers, Muckers and Twitchers.  I was interested in using the same composition, but adding a bit extra to them.  In my first iteration, I will be throwing the party against a 5th level encounter at 1,050 XP and up against 3 Bullywug Croakers, 2 Bullywug Muckers and 2 Bullywug Twitchers. In my version of the encounter, I am dropping one each of the Muckers and Twitchers, but I've increased their levels and also added an some powers.

The extra powers are to make the encounter a bit more interesting for the players, and with the additional powers, I've bumped up the base XP per Mucker and Twitcher by an extra 50 XP each.  I am considering dropping the additional powers on the Twitchers and Muckers, lowering the XP value by the same 50 points each and then  possibly adding several more Croakers or an additional Twitcher to the encounter.  So there is my brainstorm on the first encounter.  I am putting this out to provide some samples to the community for some feedback. Attached below is a zip file with the Monster write-ups. Hope you enjoy them!

Chaos Star Encounter#1