Oops I think I screwed up somehow...

[Nail]

ahhhh...ok beat me to the post..sorry about that. So 2 level 2 characters would be a big challenge for 3 lvl 2 characters...or 3 Level 2 players would have a problem against 1 Lvl 3 Sorc then right?

Check out page 49 of the 3.5e DMG.....

Your NPCs (Sor 3, Bbn 2, Rog 2, Rgr 2, Clr 2) are a EL 7 encounter!

While your PC have a "below standard" party size (3 PCs), and their average party level (APL) is 2.

Your encounter was 5 over the APL, and that's ignoring party size for the PCs. They should have been dead, dead, dead. It's an easy.....

TPK!

 

[Nail]

But the XP part is now what I have to calculate. I would say that this encounter used up about 95% of the XP...so I calculate it at about EL3?

What do you guys think?

Full XP for a EL 6 encounter (I.E. five CR 2) would be my first stab at it.

 

[Cedric]

http://www.d20srd.org/encounterCalculator.htm

Great tool to work out your encounters on before hand.

 

[Rhun]

But the XP part is now what I have to calculate. I would say that this encounter used up about 95% of the XP...so I calculate it at about EL3?

What do you guys think?

Thanks once again for your aid!

-Al

I use the Encounter Calculator in the d20srd...

http://www.d20srd.org/encounterCalculator.htm


According to that your PCs get 1100 xps each, as it was an EL7 encounter.

 

[afata5]

Ok sounds good to me, XP it will be

Once again thank you for your time and your Links..they will definetly get usage from me! lol

Thanks,

Al

 

[FCWesel]

AFATA,

Check ut this webpage:

http://www.d20srd.org/

And specifically this page within it:

http://www.d20srd.org/encounterCalculator.htm


On this page you can put the various characters and baddies and get a exp total as well as a value on how difficult an encounter is.

Good Luck!

 

[Cedric]

Gmta

 

[werk]

ahhhh...for 3 lvl 2 characters...

I don't think this is canon, or maybe not in 3.5, but I remember at some point it was suggested that, for parties with other than 4 characters, you add up their levels and divide by 4 to approximate the party level. All CR are correlated against a 4 person team, so having less members lowers the effective party average, or more members raises it. This gets a little dangerous or easy with really oversized parties or solo/duos respectively.

So a party of 3, 2nd level PCs would be a party with an average level of 1.5 rather than 2. At higher levels, this will become more pronounced, e.g. at 12th level, 3 players are a 9th level party.

It's not an exact science, but it is food for thought.