Olodrin
May 6th, 2015, 00:38
Hi all,
The thing I miss most about 4e is the encounter generation system based on XP totals, and while 5e sorta has a similar system tucked away in the small-ish print, I was having a hard time understanding it, so I did the first thing any good nerd does, which was to fire up Excel and figure it out.
One of the really interesting things that came out of the effort was a collaboration with one of my players to understand what combinations of 6-8 easy, medium, hard and deadly encounters would allow you to hit the targeted daily xp totals. It tuns out that the combos change by level.
Anyway, long story short, we built this generator, and I thought the community might find it helpful. It uses three drop downs as input: party level (0-20), number of PCs (2-6) and number of encounters (6-8).
Here's a screenshot:9829
And the file is now attached
Thanks,
Olodrin
The thing I miss most about 4e is the encounter generation system based on XP totals, and while 5e sorta has a similar system tucked away in the small-ish print, I was having a hard time understanding it, so I did the first thing any good nerd does, which was to fire up Excel and figure it out.
One of the really interesting things that came out of the effort was a collaboration with one of my players to understand what combinations of 6-8 easy, medium, hard and deadly encounters would allow you to hit the targeted daily xp totals. It tuns out that the combos change by level.
Anyway, long story short, we built this generator, and I thought the community might find it helpful. It uses three drop downs as input: party level (0-20), number of PCs (2-6) and number of encounters (6-8).
Here's a screenshot:9829
And the file is now attached
Thanks,
Olodrin