D&D 4E Encounter Building and Monster Math 3 on a Business Card (and some useful links)

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Hi everyone, because it is Christmas and some of you might (want to) use some free time to play some Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition, I thought I share some material with you to make it easier.


I made an 4E Encounter Building on a Business card as well as an updated MM3 on a Business card here:

In addition here some useful links:

A quite up to date beginners guide for D&D 4th Edition:


Two useful old links from here if you want to homebrew monsters (which some might have forgotten):

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D&D 4E Thread 'Chart for 4E monster damage, including elites & solos?'

Jan 26, 2014

I've found some charts online that have the damage for standard monsters, as well as minions. However, how do you calculate elite & solo monster damage beyond that? Is elite damage output doubled from the standard, while a solo is quadrupled? or, something else?

Most of what I've seen online is like this - which is great.

http://slyflourish.com/master_dm_sheet.pdf

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D&D 4E Thread 'The New Monster Math, Explained and Expanded'

Jan 23, 2012

"What's with this New Math?" is a fairly common topic, so I'm posting an explanation and a contribution of my own to give inquisitive folks a hand.

The Explanation: The New Monster Math was introduced with the MM3, and is designed to make monsters [more] threatening. You can read WotC's new damage chart in the DMG errata pdf, which boils down to "8 + level damage for standard monsters, 25% to 50% more for high damage attacks and upper caste monsters."

My Own Contribution: I find the single damage chart, and the second half of that advice frustratingly vague. So I spent a few...

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Some tipps on what you can do against the alphastrike problem (if in your group enemies are always just bursted down with the strongest abilities):



Feel free to post other useful links which help people to play 4E! And happy holidays!