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<blockquote data-quote="cooperjer" data-source="post: 7320918" data-attributes="member: 6862150">As [MENTION=6801845]Oofta[/MENTION] said, there are several factors that influence the effective level of a party, so a system that says &quot;Y XP is a decent fight for a level N party&quot; may not hold true either.&nbsp; My home game has one barbarian and one paladin.&nbsp; In calculating the encounter difficulty I consider the barbarian to be two characters and the mix of a paladin and barbarian, plus the player experience, and a the magic items I handed out causes me to increase the effective level by 1 as well.&nbsp; Right now they are playing as four level elevens characters, but I build encounters using five level 12 characters, with a minimum encounter XP of 10% of daily totals.For the Adventures League game I run, I use the daily XP and kobold fight club as a guide.&nbsp; There is no guarantee that a barbarian will be playing in the game and there is no guarantee on the number of players I'll have, so I use the average number of players and identify which levels I'll most likely have based on historical records I keep from previous games.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cooperjer, post: 7320918, member: 6862150"] As [MENTION=6801845]Oofta[/MENTION] said, there are several factors that influence the effective level of a party, so a system that says "Y XP is a decent fight for a level N party" may not hold true either. My home game has one barbarian and one paladin. In calculating the encounter difficulty I consider the barbarian to be two characters and the mix of a paladin and barbarian, plus the player experience, and a the magic items I handed out causes me to increase the effective level by 1 as well. Right now they are playing as four level elevens characters, but I build encounters using five level 12 characters, with a minimum encounter XP of 10% of daily totals. For the Adventures League game I run, I use the daily XP and kobold fight club as a guide. There is no guarantee that a barbarian will be playing in the game and there is no guarantee on the number of players I'll have, so I use the average number of players and identify which levels I'll most likely have based on historical records I keep from previous games. [/QUOTE]

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