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Message: <blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 8575053" data-attributes="member: 11">REMINDER: This thread is not asking for advice. This game is going great. I am just sharing data I've collected out of curiosity and used a site to figure out encounter difficulty after the fact.Another update, but it isn't much. . .   The last few sessions have been light on combat (3 combat encounters broken across two sessions). We have started the next adventure, but won't include any of the data from that until it is over, but it is interesting that the first HUGE battle was during twilight and because of time pressure the PCs must keep going without a long rest, settling for a short rest before continuing and knowing they will likely be up all night and into the next day to stop the encroaching threat.Anyway, that is what is coming up - what just passed was a couple of encounters connected to the PCs driving out the evil forces present in the hunting lodge they bought and are refurbishing to be their HQ, while befriending the Booka who also live there and were testing them to see if they could get rid of the bad stuff and be good hosts for them (so yeah, the party now has tiny faerie guardians that look over their home).<table style='width: 100%'><tr><th>Encounter #</th><th>Monsters</th><th># of (N)PCs/Level</th><th>CRs</th><th>Difficulty</th></tr><tr><td>56</td><td>Shadows (3)</td><td>4/6</td><td>1/2</td><td>Trivial</td></tr><tr><td>57</td><td>Cloaker</td><td>4/6</td><td>8</td><td>Hard</td></tr><tr><td>58</td><td>Stirges (6)</td><td>4/6</td><td>1/8</td><td>Trivial</td></tr></table>Encounter #56 was easy, but not quite trivial - in part because the attack happened while the PCS were finishing dinner and the shadows flew down into their lodge through the chimney and targeted the weakest people present (their servants). The cloaker fight was helped by closed quarters, though one member of the party and one non-combatant NPC dropped to the dying condition. The stirges (or mosquito-bats as locals call them) were harder than you'd think - not hard to kill once you hit them, but annoying and a danger after the Cloaker fight.The next encounter (which I will share in my next bit of data) involved 4 PC vs. 18 opponents (12 goblins, 4 ogres, and 2 trolls) and included the line from a player, "This is where we all die."</blockquote>

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