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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 8227085" data-attributes="member: 86653">Sly Flourish put out a video a few months back about this.The short version is you only need to worry about encounters crossing the deadly threshold. You add up the PCs total levels. If they’re 1st-4th, divide that by 4. If they’re 5th or over, divide by 2. That’s about the total number of monster CRs that will make for a deadly encounter. Build the encounter with that CR as a threshold for non-deadly vs deadly encounters.For example, six 2nd-level characters have 12 total levels. Since they’re under 5th level, divide by 4. So 3. They can face about 3 CRs worth of monsters before it’s a deadly encounter. Three 1 CR monsters, or a 1 CR and a 2 CR, or six 1/2 CR, etc.For another example, six 10th-level characters have 60 total levels. Since they’re over 4th level, divide by two. Or about 30 CRs of monsters is the deadly threshold. Three CR 10s, one CR 30, 30 CR 1s, etc.I’m not sure how accurate this is, but I’ll try it soonish.[MEDIA=youtube]05VWofhNMHI[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 8227085, member: 86653"] Sly Flourish put out a video a few months back about this. The short version is you only need to worry about encounters crossing the deadly threshold. You add up the PCs total levels. If they’re 1st-4th, divide that by 4. If they’re 5th or over, divide by 2. That’s about the total number of monster CRs that will make for a deadly encounter. Build the encounter with that CR as a threshold for non-deadly vs deadly encounters. For example, six 2nd-level characters have 12 total levels. Since they’re under 5th level, divide by 4. So 3. They can face about 3 CRs worth of monsters before it’s a deadly encounter. Three 1 CR monsters, or a 1 CR and a 2 CR, or six 1/2 CR, etc. For another example, six 10th-level characters have 60 total levels. Since they’re over 4th level, divide by two. Or about 30 CRs of monsters is the deadly threshold. Three CR 10s, one CR 30, 30 CR 1s, etc. I’m not sure how accurate this is, but I’ll try it soonish. [MEDIA=youtube]05VWofhNMHI[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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