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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fjw70" data-source="post: 6293320" data-attributes="member: 80924">I Tweeted Rodney Thompson about CR and XP to get an example and here was his response.@wotc_rodney: [MENTION=3482]FJ[/MENTION]w1970 Sure. Let's say I am building an adventure for a 5th-level party of six player characters. I want to put three gricks in a room.@wotc_rodney: [MENTION=3482]FJ[/MENTION]w1970 I know the gricks are OK to include because they are CR 2, so below my party's level. Here, CR is just an easy-to-reference flag.@wotc_rodney: [MENTION=3482]FJ[/MENTION]w1970 Each grick is worth 450 XP, so there's 1,350 XP worth of monsters in the encounter.@wotc_rodney: [MENTION=3482]FJ[/MENTION]w1970 Referencing my encounter-building tables, I see that each PC contributes 200 XP to the encounter budget of a moderate fight.@wotc_rodney: [MENTION=3482]FJ[/MENTION]w1970 Since I have 6 PCs, I know I'd normally include about 1,200 XP worth of monsters to a moderate fight, so this encounter is...@wotc_rodney: [MENTION=3482]FJ[/MENTION]w1970 ...a little more than moderate difficulty. That's all there is to it.@wotc_rodney: [MENTION=3482]FJ[/MENTION]w1970 Keep in mind those exact numbers may not be right, because I'm out of the office and don't have my documents to refer to.@wotc_rodney: [MENTION=3482]FJ[/MENTION]w1970 But the concept is right.@wotc_rodney: [MENTION=3482]FJ[/MENTION]w1970 CR is just an easy to reference indicator for DMs to know a monster's relative power.@wotc_rodney: [MENTION=3482]FJ[/MENTION]w1970 It's just easier to remember that "CR 2" starts being an appropriate challenge for 2nd level characters, as opposed to 450 XP.</blockquote>

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