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Message: <blockquote data-quote="greywulf" data-source="post: 3180603" data-attributes="member: 4285">btw - just to throw a bucket of spanners into the mix - I've updated the whole EL thing in the Microlite20 Core doc. It now reads:Encounter Level = Hit Dice of defeated monsters, or the given EL for the trap, situation, etc. Add +1 for each doubling of the number of foes. eg: 1 kobold = EL1. 2 kobolds = EL2. 4 kobolds = EL3, etc.Note the +1 for doubling the foes. Simplifies the whole thing, and still works reasonably well at higher levels too.Just so you know.It means that two 4HD Ogres are EL5, four are EL6, etc. If you have an odd number of Ogres (Mommy Ogre, Daddy Ogre and Little Baby Ogre, maybe) then make it EL5 or 6 depending on how generous or evil you're feeling. That's asuming you tackle all three Ogres as a single combat. Picking off one at a time would be EL4, three times. That's because. Oh, I dunno. Just because, I guess <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Make up your own reasons. I'm sure they'll be better than mine.Similarly, a flight of 8 x 13HD red Dragons is EL16. Not that you'd be daft enough to try and take on 8 dragons at the same time <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />ok, it's not by-the-book d20, but the whole silliness of HD/CR/EL calcualtions has to end somewhere!If everyone nods to this change, that's it. Core is closed. Anything else is going in the Macropedia, so there!</blockquote>

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