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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NotAYakk" data-source="post: 8301069" data-attributes="member: 72555">For every tier-optimal attuned combat item (or equivalent non-attuned item, like a optimal magic armor/weapons), add +1 to the PCs level.Add up the PCs levels after doing that adjustment.Add up the monster's CRs (if you have masses of sub-1 CR monsters, or T1 PCs, this needs adjustment).The monsters adding up to:1/5 is easy1/4 is medium1/3 is hard40% is deadlygive you a decent result.5 level 6 players, Assume 2 T2 quality magic items each, so 8*5 = 40 total player levels of power.Easy: 8 total CRMedium: 10 total CRHard: 13 total CRDeadly: 16 total CRThe quickest adjustment under CR 1 monsters is:CR 1/8 -> 1/6CR 1/4 -> 1/3CR 1/2 -> 2/3which is a slight boost, but it matters in large numbers.(You can also boost CR 1 up a bit, but that matters less).The above assumes enemies get to be in a tactically reasonable position.If you want to build multiple scenes of encounters, give each encounter points.  Easy is 1, Medium 2, Hard 3, Deadly 4.  Every 10% of party power over deadly is another point (you know, to be a least a LITTLE bit fair).Multi-wave fights are counted as separate encounters.  If they are medium-fast waves (ie, previous wave is mostly still there), you can fudge that up a tiny bit.Easy Scene: 3-4 total pointsMedium Scene: 5-6 total pointsHard Scene: 7-8 total pointsDeadly Scene: 9+ total pointsI assume after a scene you can take a short rest.For an adventuring day, again assign each scene points (1 for easy, 2 for medium, 3 for hard, 4 for deadly, +1 for each 2 points past 9 for super-deadly).An adventuring day difficulty is:Easy day: 3-4 total pointsMedium day: 5-6 total pointsHard day: 7-8 total pointsDeadly day: 9+ total pointsIf you have 3 medium fights, this is a medium scene.  If you have 3 medium scenes, this is a medium day.  Medium fights in this roughly correspond to (after adjustment for items) medium fights using DMG building rules.(Because XP is non-linear in CR, simply adding up CR is a really good approximation for adding up XP then doing the encounter size multiplier.)</blockquote>

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