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Has anyone used the new tools at the d20 SRD?
« on: September 28, 2016, 01:53:52 AM »
The encounter calculator seemed off when I tried it last.

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Re: Has anyone used the new tools at the d20 SRD?
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2016, 02:08:42 AM »
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Re: Has anyone used the new tools at the d20 SRD?
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2016, 06:33:27 PM »
so you dont like it either  :lol

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Re: Has anyone used the new tools at the d20 SRD?
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2016, 07:20:00 PM »
I'm not sure what you're talking about, the tool page has worked fine for the last ten years.

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Re: Has anyone used the new tools at the d20 SRD?
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Re: Has anyone used the new tools at the d20 SRD?
« Reply #5 on: October 13, 2016, 08:02:01 PM »
Can you give an example to show it computing something incorrectly?

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Re: Has anyone used the new tools at the d20 SRD?
« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2016, 04:15:51 PM »
No, it's just the couple of times I've used it the xp rewards were pretty high.


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Re: Has anyone used the new tools at the d20 SRD?
« Reply #8 on: October 20, 2016, 02:14:03 AM »
A party of 5 9th Level adventurers encounters 7 monsters: 6 of them CR 7 and 1 of them CR 12

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Re: Has anyone used the new tools at the d20 SRD?
« Reply #9 on: October 22, 2016, 09:36:49 AM »
Well I cant confirm or deny its accuracy, but Ive usually use it to quickly calculate XP.
If it is off Id love to know so I can slash my players XP and make them angry as they lose 4 or so feats  :devil
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Re: Has anyone used the new tools at the d20 SRD?
« Reply #10 on: October 22, 2016, 05:24:35 PM »
A party of 5 9th Level adventurers encounters 7 monsters: 6 of them CR 7 and 1 of them CR 12

Napkin math says that's roughly the equivalent of facing up against 3 CR 9s and 2 CR 10s, a monster group allegedly more powerful then the PCs' party, so you should expect a rather large XP reward.

Going from the DMG, page 38's Table 2-6: Experience Point Awards (Single Monster) gives the following XP rewards for EL 9 characters:
CR 7: 1350
CR 12: 8100
1350*6 + 8100 = 16200, divided 5 ways is 3240 XP/character, exactly as the encounter calculator indicates.
« Last Edit: October 22, 2016, 05:27:36 PM by Garryl »

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Re: Has anyone used the new tools at the d20 SRD?
« Reply #11 on: November 11, 2016, 10:45:27 PM »
Napkin math to me suggests that something the party had trouble fighting is worth more experience than something the party didn't have trouble fighting. If you have a mountain path full of monsters and the characters need to get to the top, and they just teleport up there, do you give them the exp for bypassing them? No. It's Challenge Rating. Challenge. If there's no challenge, there's no challenge rating, ergo, no XP.

I base levelling up on 4 difficult encounters per level, with some additional requirements on top of that for roleplaying, so maybe something like a 22:22:22:22:12 split for requiring to level. Just going into a dungeon and fighting 4 difficult encounters (and making hard work of it) will get more XP than one. It helps prevent some people from stealing the show with CharOp tricks as well if they don't get any XP, and it becomes self policing within the party.

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Re: Has anyone used the new tools at the d20 SRD?
« Reply #12 on: November 12, 2016, 02:28:01 PM »
those were just numbers i pulled out of the air.  I can't remember what I actually did.