D&D DMG 3.5 MANUAL

First I'll explain why this happens, and then how you can fix this. If you're using this calculator a lot, you may have found it can seem to overstate the difficulty of encounters. Why are my players finding encounters so easy? Be very careful before putting your PCs up against a Deadly encounter, especially against lots of enemies. In 5th Edition, outnumbering your opponent can be quite an advantage.

Don't go too wild with this, though - the PCs can only take on so many enemies at once. Either go for a group of lower-level mooks, or a second bad guy of around the same CR, or mix and match. To spice things up, increase the number of enemies. You'll find that this method mostly generates Medium or Hard difficulty encounters, which is about what you are aiming for. This won't always be perfect, but it's a good place to start.

D&D DMG 3.5 MANUAL

The easiest way to build an encounter is to pick an enemy from the Monster Manual with a CR around the same as the level of PCs in your party, maybe one higher if you want them to have a tough fight. Finally, press CALCULATE to see details about the encounter, and to get a difficulty rating for the encounter given your party.Īlternatively, check the 'Use Challenge Rating (CR)' box, fill in the number of monsters and the CR for each monster rather than its XP level.įirst, congratulations on running a game! You'll get the hang of it pretty quickly. Second, fill in the number of monsters and the amount of XP that each one gives in a similar manner. If you have three seventh-level characters and one eighth-level, type 3 in number, 7 in level, add a second row, and add 1 in number and 8 in level. Next, press CALCULATE to see the encounter XP thresholds for the party.įor example, if you have four first-level characters, type 4 in number, and 1 in level. If characters in your party are at different levels, add multiple rows and include each group of characters with the same level in their own row. Updated to use DM Basic Rules v0.3 (same method used in the DMG) on įirst, fill in the number of characters in your party and their level.

D&d dmg 3.5