Request for information on the Average Encounter


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Hey Paizo and other folks,

I'm currently in the middle of a project to get a good feel for the math behind Pathfinder, using what I believe to be baseline examples of CRB classes and Table 1-1 of the Bestiary. This is primarily for my own benefit for when designing, but other people seem to enjoy the information, so I'm posting it in various threads.

To expand past the fighter, I'm curious if there's any data collating and averaging the encounters of the Paizo APs and modules, and if so, if I can have access to it.

What I'm mostly curious about is the percentage of type/subtype and alignment pairs used in encounters, and maybe if there are classed levels or not. This would all tie to a certain CR, and from this we can get a very rough idea of the usage of certain types of creatures.

If there's not already one of these DBs, I'm aware of how silly it would be to ask you guys to suddenly make one, so I'll leave that to Karui Kage :)

If any fans know of such a DB, I'd be grateful!

Scarab Sages

I have *some* of this information, though I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for. My databases track all the monsters in the Bestiaries of each AP, and other sources of course. I don't really look at the composition of every encounter though.

So I could tell you the percentage of a type/subtype for each CR, for example. Even the percentage of alignment within that. But I couldn't tell you anything about this information in how it relates to every encounter in an AP. I just haven't tracked that, I'm afraid. :S

If the above would be useful, I'll see if I can run a query sometime and upload the info.

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