Elvinis75 said:Four Hill Giants CR 7 are what total?
Can situation modify this?
Do you have to consider a characters equipment against what a npc of their class would have at the same level?
Technik4 said:Hey Jester! You back from your trip yet? You left me drooling for more in your story hour thread! Thanks again for the tips!
Technik
the Jester said:There's a chart in the dmg that helps determine EL... don't have it handy so I can't tell you the page, but look in the index and all will become clear!One important note- when you award xp, it goes by the individual CRs. So (using the four hill giants in your example), you have an EL11 encounter, but the xp awarded are for four CR7 monsters.
Elvinis75 said:Do situations and the equipment that characters have in the campaign change the CR and how much / little.