Recent content by infoweasel

Hmm. Maybe that's WoTC's fault for being a little ambigious, but on said page, the formula for determining the 'budget' is given as [I]Multiply the number of characters in the party by the XP value of a monster of the encounter’s level.' What they -mean- to say, and fail to specify, is a...

XP is completely dependent upon level and Minion/Standard/Elite/Solo status Wait, what? No, the entire point is that X monster has Y xp value. Its xp value is determined by its level and role, true, but the xp value is not malleable. Is that what you meant? Either way, I'm curious to see your...

XP is completely dependent upon level and Minion/Standard/Elite/Solo status Wait, what? No, the entire point is that X monster has Y xp value. Its xp value is determined by its level and role, true, but the xp value is not malleable. Is that what you meant? Either way, I'm curious to see your...

XP is completely dependent upon level and Minion/Standard/Elite/Solo status Wait, what? No, the entire point is that X monster has Y xp value. Its xp value is determined by its level and role, true, but the xp value is not malleable. Is that what you meant? Either way, I'm curious to see your...

So the way the new encounter creation system is designed, one effectively 'buys' monsters based on a 'budget' of total XP. Sounds decent enough, makes more sense than the ECL system. However, the MM only has a list of monsters by level, not by XP. So one has to flip to the page of a given...