by Tel Prydain
I've said this in other threads, but we use the tokens (including the 4 monster token), along with the harder monsters from Dungeon Command. We balance the extra/harder monsters by mixing the non-item treasures into the encounter deck so that not all encounters are inherently bad.These changes make the game more fighty - extra/harder monster means you have to hold back more to plow through the monsters, but you're not punished so badly for not exploring.