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<blockquote data-quote="Tolen Mar" data-source="post: 2496763" data-attributes="member: 1295"><p>Wow...</p><p></p><p>Actually 'by the book' you could multiply it out. Every time you double the number of CR X critters, you're supposed to add 2 to the Encounter Level. A base Stirge is 1/2 CR, doubled is 1, doubled again is 3, and again is 5, etc...</p><p></p><p>if you wanted to go until you hit 1204 of them, you could, but at some point its easier to count groups of them in the same fashion...</p><p></p><p>So on a lark, I did that. Got to a cr 15 group of 256 Stirges. Then I divided your total by 256 to get roughly 4.7...so 1 group of 256 is cr 15, 2 is 17, 4 is 19...for the less than 256 left over, say round to 20. That doesnt even count the templates, with whatver they add to each individual stirge, and therefore pushes the number up higher. Maybe fudge a bit for the narrow corridors....Maybe 25? By the Book?</p><p></p><p>What levels are these guys anyway?</p><p></p><p>Of course, Ad Hoc is bound to be easier.</p><p></p><p>The fact that you conceived of such an encounter, however, is more than enough to confirm your status. I have a sea(space)faring game coming up...maybe I should flex my DM muscles and have the ship encounter a horde of space-born giant hamsters...with mind flayer riders...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tolen Mar, post: 2496763, member: 1295"] Wow... Actually 'by the book' you could multiply it out. Every time you double the number of CR X critters, you're supposed to add 2 to the Encounter Level. A base Stirge is 1/2 CR, doubled is 1, doubled again is 3, and again is 5, etc... if you wanted to go until you hit 1204 of them, you could, but at some point its easier to count groups of them in the same fashion... So on a lark, I did that. Got to a cr 15 group of 256 Stirges. Then I divided your total by 256 to get roughly 4.7...so 1 group of 256 is cr 15, 2 is 17, 4 is 19...for the less than 256 left over, say round to 20. That doesnt even count the templates, with whatver they add to each individual stirge, and therefore pushes the number up higher. Maybe fudge a bit for the narrow corridors....Maybe 25? By the Book? What levels are these guys anyway? Of course, Ad Hoc is bound to be easier. The fact that you conceived of such an encounter, however, is more than enough to confirm your status. I have a sea(space)faring game coming up...maybe I should flex my DM muscles and have the ship encounter a horde of space-born giant hamsters...with mind flayer riders... [/QUOTE]
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