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<blockquote data-quote="Tormyr" data-source="post: 6589428" data-attributes="member: 6776887">What you are actually looking for is encounter building. Encounters are generally looked at as Easy, Medium, Hard, or Deadly. CR of a creature determines the XP value for the creature, but the XP value and multipliers determine the XP difficulty for the encounter.&nbsp; This is different than the XP awarded to the party.To simulate encounter CR/Encounter Level, make a Medium encounter for a group of PCs of the same level as the Encounter Level you are looking for.&nbsp; This can be different than the level of the party. For your examples, assuming 4 PCs:3 CR 5 monsters: Encounter XP 10800, awarded XP 5400, a medium encounter for a level 12 party so it could be considered as EL 12, a potentially Deadly encounter for parties of level 9 and below.3 CR 8 monsters: EL 173 CR 6 monsters: EL 143 CR 4 monsters: EL 103 CR 2 monsters would be a Medium encounter for a 6th level party of 4.Medium encounters are expected to use some party resources and have a low chance of lethality.You can use my encounter building spreadsheet to quickly calculate encounter xp.<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/rpgdownloads.php?do=download&amp;downloadid=1186" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/rpgdownloads.php?do=download&amp;downloadid=1186</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tormyr, post: 6589428, member: 6776887"] What you are actually looking for is encounter building. Encounters are generally looked at as Easy, Medium, Hard, or Deadly. CR of a creature determines the XP value for the creature, but the XP value and multipliers determine the XP difficulty for the encounter. This is different than the XP awarded to the party. To simulate encounter CR/Encounter Level, make a Medium encounter for a group of PCs of the same level as the Encounter Level you are looking for. This can be different than the level of the party. For your examples, assuming 4 PCs: 3 CR 5 monsters: Encounter XP 10800, awarded XP 5400, a medium encounter for a level 12 party so it could be considered as EL 12, a potentially Deadly encounter for parties of level 9 and below. 3 CR 8 monsters: EL 17 3 CR 6 monsters: EL 14 3 CR 4 monsters: EL 10 3 CR 2 monsters would be a Medium encounter for a 6th level party of 4. Medium encounters are expected to use some party resources and have a low chance of lethality. You can use my encounter building spreadsheet to quickly calculate encounter xp. [url]http://www.enworld.org/forum/rpgdownloads.php?do=download&downloadid=1186[/url] [/QUOTE]

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