Okay, first off: My players, out. You know who you are.
Aaaanyhew.
I'm putting together an encounter for Rise of the Runelords. My players are exploring Xin Shalast and if they look the right place, they may come across a few NPCs from their past.
The encounter features Xanesha, who escaped back in book 2, an evil orcish witch(the mother of a former party member), the oldest son of said witch, and 2 orcish elites.
The group is APL 16 and I'm designing the encounter to be CR 17.
1 Orc scarred witch-doctor 14
1 Lamia Matriarch rogue 1/warrior 8
1 Orc invulnerable rager 11
2 Orc warrior 11
I just want to make sure that this is keeping with CR 17, and that there is not something I'm missing that throws the encounter out of balance?
-Nearyn
EDIT: treasure is standard, and all the Orcs are generated with PB 15.
You have a CR 13 witch doctor, a CR 10 barbarian, and two CR 9 grunts.
I'm not sure of the CR on that lamia thingy.
A CR 17 encounter is worth 102,400xp.
The witch accounts for 25600.
The son accounts for 9600.
The elites for a further 12800.
This leaves 102400-(25600+9600+6400*2)=102400-48000=54400xp for the lamia. If it isn't worth that, then the encounter isn't exactly CR 17.
If the lamia is a CR 15, then it's worth 51200xp, and the encounter is quite close to CR 17 total, just 3200xp below. You could throw a CR 7 thing in there, or give one of the elites a character class, and it'd hit the spot precisely.
huh, thanks alot. The encounter is not strong enough. The Lamia, as far as I've been able to tell, would be CR 13.
I must've gone crosseyed while looking at the table, cuz i've got CR 13 marked as 38.400 EXP, rather than 25.600.
That leaves me 25.600 EXP of wiggle-room.
Unless ofc someone points something out to change that.
Again, thanks :)
-Nearyn
Quite right Kestral. The Son is CR 10, whereas I've been leaving him marked as CR 11. Thanks.
-Nearyn