5E Low Level Encounter Tables

[Griogre]

I am doing some Side Quest Videos that show how to build your own encounter tables from scratch. I'm sure most of you realize the 5E encounter rules are not very good the further you get from 1st and 2nd level.

I've done one for 1st level starting with just the SRD and then adding some Monster Manual monsters, first the 1/8s and then some 1/4s. I go into how to build your own tables and import them into Fantasy Grounds. This is buried in my Let's Play post so I thought I would post a link to the videos in their own thread here. Note I use the 5E 2014 SRD and MM in the videos but there is no reason you couldn't use the 5E 2024 SRD or MM.

Here's the first video: Let's Play: Side Quest! Building 5E Monster Encounters (https://youtu.be/cm8V2Gh6SZg)

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You can find the import data for the SRD tables in this thread (post #11): https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?85539-Let-s-Play-Solo!&p=749435&viewfull=1#post749435

And I'm going to post the latest data import for the Monster Manual below. If you don't know how to turn this data into generated encounters, watch the videos where I walk you through it step by step:

4 PC Party


1d6+1d10 ; Group 1 ; Group 2
2 ; [1d3+1x] Smoke Mephit ;
3 ; [1d2+1x] Stirge ;
4 ; [1d3+2x] Slaad Tadpole ;
5 ; [1x] Acolyte ; [1d3x] Cultist
6 ; [2x] Skeleton ; [1d3x] Crawling Claw
7 ; [1d2+2x] Kobold ;
8 ; [1d3+2x] Giant Rat ;
9 ; [1d3+2x] Cultist ;
10 ; [1d3+2x] Bandit ;
11 ; [1d3+1x] Goblin ;
12 ; [2x] Zombie ; [1d3x] Crawling Claw
13 ; [2x] Guard ; [1d3x] Mastiff
14 ; [1d3+1x] Grimlock ;
15 ; [1d3+2x] Manes ;
16 ; [1x] Flying Sword ; [1d3+1x] Lemure



5 PC Party


1d6+1d10 ; Group 1 ; Group 2
2 ; [1d3+2x] Smoke Mephit ;
3 ; [1d3+1x] Stirge ;
4 ; [1d3+3x] Slaad Tadpole ;
5 ; [2x] Acolyte ; [1d3x] Cultist
6 ; [3x] Skeleton ; [1d3x] Crawling Claw
7 ; [1d3+2x] Kobold ;
8 ; [1d3+3x] Giant Rat ;
9 ; [1d3+3x] Cultist ;
10 ; [1d3+3x] Bandit ;
11 ; [1d3+2x] Goblin ;
12 ; [3x] Zombie ; [1d3x] Crawling Claw
13 ; [2x] Guard ; [1d3+1x] Mastiff
14 ; [1d3+1x] Grimlock ;
15 ; [1d3+2x] Manes ;
16 ; [2x] Flying Sword ; [1d3+1x] Lemure

[Zacchaeus]

Jolly Good

[Jiminimonka]

Very useful.

[Griogre]

I have released a new video on creating second level encounters using the data below. Also when you import the data, FG does not import mismatched dice. Change the 1d19+1 to 1d12 + 1d8 by dropping a d12 and a d8 into the custom roll amount. Note: in the video I forgot to mention you should change the table output from "Chat" to "Enc"

Let's Play: Side Quest! Building 5E Monster Encounters 5 (https://youtu.be/jGO_bI88TVI)
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4 PC Party Encounters


1d8+1d12 ; Group 1 ; Group 2
2 ; [1d3+2x] Mud Mephit ;
3 ; [1x] Hobgoblin ; [1d3x] Goblin
4 ; [1d3+2x] Flying Sword ;
5 ; [2x] Acolyte ; [1d5+1x] Cultist
6 ; [1d3+2x] Kuo-toa ;
7 ; [1d3+5x] Stirge ;
8 ; [1d3+3x] Skeleton ;
9 ; [1d3+2x] Troglodyte ;
10 ; [4x] Kobold ; [1d3x] Winged Kobold
11 ; [1d3+2x] Giant Wolf Spider ;
12 ; [1d3+2x] Goblin ;
13 ; [1x] Thug ; [1d5+1x] Bandit
14 ; [1d3+3x] Zombie ;
15 ; [1d3+5x] Slaad Tadpole ;
16 ; [1d3+2x] Grimlock ;
17 ; [2x] Giant Rats ; [1d3x] Swarm of Rats
18 ; [1x] Orc ; [1d3x] Wolf
19 ; [1x] Gnoll ; [1d5+1x] Tribal Warriors
20 ; [1d3+2x] Dretch ;


5 PC Party Encounters


1d6+1d10 ; Group 1 ; Group 2
2 ; [1d3+3x] Mud Mephit ;
3 ; [1x] Hobgoblin ; [1d3+1x] Goblin
4 ; [1d3+3x] Flying Sword ;
5 ; [2x] Acolyte ; [1d5+3x] Cultist
6 ; [1d3+3x] Kuo-toa ;
7 ; [1d5+5x] Stirge ;
8 ; [1d3+4x] Skeleton ;
9 ; [1d3+3x] Troglodyte ;
10 ; [4x] Kobold ; [1d3+1x] Winged Kobold
11 ; [1d3+3x] Giant Wolf Spider ;
12 ; [1d3+3x] Goblin ;
13 ; [1x] Thug ; [1d5+3x] Bandit
14 ; [1d3+4x] Zombie ;
15 ; [1d5+5x] Slaad Tadpole ;
16 ; [1d3+3x] Grimlock ;
17 ; [2x] Giant Rats ; [1d3+1x] Swarm of Rats
18 ; [1d2+1x] Orc ;
19 ; [1d2+1x] Gnoll ;
20 ; [1d3+2x] Dretch ;