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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9652068" data-attributes="member: 58172">For an adventure, it might be worthwhile to count &quot;encounters&quot;, rather than count pages.It takes about 5½ standard encounters to go from level 1 to level 2, then an other 5½ standard encounters to go from level 2 to level 3. The number of required encounters to level, increases from there. To go from level 3 to level 4 needs about 11 encounters. Finally to exit the lowest tier and enter the next tier starting at level 5 takes about 15 encounters.So an adventure for levels 1 thru 4, to end up a level 5, needs to have about 27 encounters ( = 5½ + 5½ + 11 + 15) at the appropriate Challenge Rating.From then on, the necessary number plateaus at about about 15 standard encounters to reach the next level. To get from level 5 to level 7 takes about 30 encounters. Instead, to get from level 5 to level 9 takes about 60 encounters. To get from level 5 to level 11 takes about 90 encounters.One can estimate how big an adventure is, by counting the number of encounters the player characters are likely to face.However once exiting level 11, the number of standard challenges to advance to the next level drops down to only about 9 encounters per level. So advancing thru the highest tiers happens at a brisk clip.Here are two charts making slightly different calculations. One can clearly see about how many encounters − namely how big an adventure needs to be − in order to reach the next.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="https://www.enworld.org/media/5e-encounters-per-level-old-guy-gamer-png.136534/full" alt="5e Encounters Per Level (Old Guy Gamer).png" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable fr-fil" data-size="" style="" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img src="https://www.enworld.org/media/5e-encounters-per-level-dale-m-png.136061/full" alt="- 5e encounters per level (Dale M).png" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable fr-fil" data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 9652068, member: 58172"] For an adventure, it might be worthwhile to count "encounters", rather than count pages. It takes about 5½ standard encounters to go from level 1 to level 2, then an other 5½ standard encounters to go from level 2 to level 3. The number of required encounters to level, increases from there. To go from level 3 to level 4 needs about 11 encounters. Finally to exit the lowest tier and enter the next tier starting at level 5 takes about 15 encounters. So an adventure for levels 1 thru 4, to end up a level 5, needs to have about 27 encounters ( = 5½ + 5½ + 11 + 15) at the appropriate Challenge Rating. From then on, the necessary number plateaus at about about 15 standard encounters to reach the next level. To get from level 5 to level 7 takes about 30 encounters. Instead, to get from level 5 to level 9 takes about 60 encounters. To get from level 5 to level 11 takes about 90 encounters. One can estimate how big an adventure is, by counting the number of encounters the player characters are likely to face. However once exiting level 11, the number of standard challenges to advance to the next level drops down to only about 9 encounters per level. So advancing thru the highest tiers happens at a brisk clip. Here are two charts making slightly different calculations. One can clearly see about how many encounters − namely how big an adventure needs to be − in order to reach the next. [IMG align="left" alt="5e Encounters Per Level (Old Guy Gamer).png"]https://www.enworld.org/media/5e-encounters-per-level-old-guy-gamer-png.136534/full[/IMG] [IMG align="left" alt="- 5e encounters per level (Dale M).png"]https://www.enworld.org/media/5e-encounters-per-level-dale-m-png.136061/full[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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