Pre Generated Encounters

[ForbidenMaster]

The one thing in particular I think the Monster Manual is missing is a list of all of their ready made encounters. Some of their encounter ideas are pretty cool, but if you are building a campaign, or just running a random dungeon, odds are you will be looking for encounters based on the level of the party. Therefor I created a list of every heroic and paragon encounter group and I thought I might as well share it.

PS. If this in anyway violates copyright/the rules of Enworld I apologize and please delete this thread.

 

[Asmor]

Honestly, I think the pre-made encounters are more a convenience thing than anything else. They're for when you say "I want an orc encounter, dammit, and I don't care what!"

They're not very useful in general because of the encounter templates in the DMG. In a nutshell, the encounter templates give you assortments of creatures. For example, a standard level n "Commanders & Troops" encounter consists of 5 troops of level n - 2 and a commander of level n + 3.

Of course, all these templates (and the samples in the MM) are based on a 5-player game.