5.5 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 did something similar for 5E.

Here's the first video: Let's Play: Side Quest! Building Level 01 5.5E Monster Encounters (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg_S0l3ik9s)
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Here's the table data. Note FG VTT will import the range as 1d19+1. You should change it to 1d8 + 1d12 by dropping a d8 and d12 into the dice cup of the table. There's an example in the video on how to import the data and adjust the range.

4 PCs


1d8+1d12 ; Group 1 ; Group 2
2 ; [1d3+1x] Smoke Mephit ;
3 ; [1d2+1x] Stirge ;
4 ; [1d3+2x] Slaad Tadpole ;
5 ; [1x] Priest Acolyte ; [1d3x] Cultist
6 ; [1d3+1x] Troglodyte ;
7 ; [1d3+1x] Giant Centipede ;
8 ; [2x] Skeleton ; [1d3x] Crawling Claw
9 ; [1d2+2x] Kobold Warrior ;
10 ; [1d2+2x] Giant Rat ;
11 ; [1d3+2x] Cultist ;
12 ; [1d3+2x] Bandit ;
13 ; [1d3+2x] Goblin Minion ;
14 ; [2x] Zombie ; [1d3x] Crawling Claw
15 ; [1d3+2x] Flying Snake ;
16 ; [1d2+2x] Goblin Warrior ;
17 ; [1d3+2x] Manes ;
18 ; [2x] Animated Broom ; [1d3x] Lemure
19 ; [1d3+1x] Dretch ;
20 ; [1d3+1x] Mud Mephit ;


5 PCs:


1d8+1d12 ; Group 1 ; Group 2
2 ; [1d3+2x] Smoke Mephit ;
3 ; [1d2+2x] Stirge ;
4 ; [1d3+3x] Slaad Tadpole ;
5 ; [2x] Priest Acolyte ; [1d3x] Cultist
6 ; [1d3+2x] Troglodyte ;
7 ; [1d3+2x] Giant Centipede ;
8 ; [3x] Skeleton ; [1d3x] Crawling Claw
9 ; [1d3+2x] Kobold Warrior ;
10 ; [1d3+2x] Giant Rat ;
11 ; [1d3+3x] Cultist ;
12 ; [1d3+3x] Bandit ;
13 ; [1d3+3x] Goblin Minion ;
14 ; [3x] Zombie ; [1d3x] Crawling Claw
15 ; [1d3+3x] Flying Snake ;
16 ; [1d3+2x] Goblin Warrior ;
17 ; [1d3+3x] Manes ;
18 ; [3x] Animated Broom ; [1d3x] Lemure
19 ; [1d3+2x] Dretch ;
20 ; [1d3+2x] Mud Mephit ;

[Griogre]

While this isn't an encounter video, I do walk you through how to make an alternative monster manual with updated monsters. I update the Derro from MotM for 5.5 as well.

Let's Play: Side Quest! Building a Custom Monster Manual (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tCRQDm7Xvs)
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I will be releasing the 2nd level encounter tables next.