Rowan wrote:
I was wondering if anyone could help me. I'm going to be DMing a party of six or so PCs. I'm glad to enough PCs, but I'm having trouble designing adventures. When they all get to second level they will have a combined level of 12 and an average level of 2. Now a monster with even a CR of 10 would eat them alive, while a monster with a CR of 2 would just lay down and die. I know I can put them up against a bunch of low level monster, but that can get old. So, where is the happy medium? What single CR level can I pit them against and give them a challenge without ending in massive amounts of PC death?
Rowan,
email me at david6779@yahoo.com. I’ll give you a table that you can use to work out the appropriate EL for a party of any size. It follows the principle for example that an EL 1 encounter is an appropriate encounter for a group of four 1st-level PCs. The beauty of the table is that you can use it to work out the appropriate EL for a group of any size.
(As an example, suppose you have six players playing 2nd-level PCs. An appropriate combat encounter would be EL 3, which should, on average, use up about 20% of the party’s resources. Using another example, suppose you have three players. The party consists of two 8th-level PCs and a 7th-level PC. The appropriate EL would be EL 6.).
If anyone else would like the table, just email me.
