5E Encounter Calc

[Fudly]

MODERATOR: Now includes updated v3.2.0 compatible version.

I updated hereander's extension.

How it works:
Put the attachment in your fantasy ground's extensions folder. On my computer that is:

C:\Users\Fudly\AppData\Roaming\Fantasy Grounds\extensions

Activate the extension for your campaign
Attachment 14688

Choose whether you want to get party levels from the combat tracker or the party sheet.
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To use this, as you're creating a new encounter, click the refresh button to update the XP total, and then press "Encounter Difficulty" to output the difficulty of the encounter to chat.
Attachment 14686

This is a little different from hereander's. I don't know which formula he was using to calculate difficulty. We calculate it the DMG way now. Also, I added a "super deadly" category which is another difficulty level harder than deadly.

[Fudly]

Also, I'd like to make this autoupdate the XP total as you add, remove, and change the quantity of mobs, but I have no idea how to get that information in scope. I feel like I should be able to add a handler to the .npclist database record, but I couldn't figure out the syntax.

[Zacchaeus]

Nice work, I'll sticky this in the 5E forums.

[lesliev]

Awesome, thanks Fudly! This is going to save me a lot of time!

[lesliev]

This page still has the link to the old non-working extension:
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...ity-extensions

[bnickelsen]

I noticed that the calculation seems to always pick the lower value when assigning the difficulty level. I think (my interpretation) is it should pick the one closer to your value.


So if your encounter threshold = 700 and Medium = 500 and Hard = 750 then the encounter should = Hard. However it seems to me that teh extension woudl return Medium.

[Fudly]

I noticed that the calculation seems to always pick the lower value when assigning the difficulty level. I think (my interpretation) is it should pick the one closer to your value.


So if your encounter threshold = 700 and Medium = 500 and Hard = 750 then the encounter should = Hard. However it seems to me that teh extension woudl return Medium.

The DM manual has thresholds with no rounding, so I have thresholds with no rounding. That said, I'd bet your way is equally useful (aka almost useless). The calculation isn't nearly accurate enough where rounding matters.

If accurate encounter difficulties matters to you, the best edition for that is 4th.

[JohnD]

I don't particularly worry about CL. I just put the situation out there and let the players decided who has the bigger swinging ****.

[bnickelsen]

The DM manual has thresholds with no rounding, so I have thresholds with no rounding. That said, I'd bet your way is equally useful (aka almost useless). The calculation isn't nearly accurate enough where rounding matters.

If accurate encounter difficulties matters to you, the best edition for that is 4th.

I respect your opinion.
If I can figure how to even get in and look at it, do you mind if I tinker.

[hereander]

Hey, great work! I almost forgot about that thing

As far as I remember I got the algorithm from the javascript here https://dhmholley.co.uk/encounter-calculator-5th/