Tilla the Hun (work)
First Post
A recent thread spurred a question in my mind.
I tend to use CR as a guide to how effective a particular monster, or group of monsters, will be against my party. I tend to ignore EL's and I also tend to award XP to advance my group at the rate that I wish them to advance.
The first four or five encounters, I actually used an XP encounter calculator (a very fine HTML tool) to calculate out the XP award, and I found my arbitary awards to be within 10-20% of what it suggested, ignoring the fact that it's advice to the players was to find a new gm
Regardless of that - I'm curious - How many GM's out there actually have a fully balanced party of all the same level campaigning through situations wherein CR, EL and XP award for EL actually work precisely as it is indicated it should work?
I should mention, btw, that my group and I are extremely happy with our game and doing things our way. I'm just curious as to how many gm's out there actually find it working the way the book indicates
I tend to use CR as a guide to how effective a particular monster, or group of monsters, will be against my party. I tend to ignore EL's and I also tend to award XP to advance my group at the rate that I wish them to advance.
The first four or five encounters, I actually used an XP encounter calculator (a very fine HTML tool) to calculate out the XP award, and I found my arbitary awards to be within 10-20% of what it suggested, ignoring the fact that it's advice to the players was to find a new gm
Regardless of that - I'm curious - How many GM's out there actually have a fully balanced party of all the same level campaigning through situations wherein CR, EL and XP award for EL actually work precisely as it is indicated it should work?
I should mention, btw, that my group and I are extremely happy with our game and doing things our way. I'm just curious as to how many gm's out there actually find it working the way the book indicates
