Hello Everyone ,
I am having a little bit of a brain blurb at the moment. I am reading over the rules for selecting monsters for an encounter and i think it's just not clicking with me. My assumption is when calculating your party's level it's the average level of the party. so say that they are all the same in this case lets say 4 - 1st level characters, the party level for the party would be 1?
So selecting a creature that is -1 (let's say animated broom) would make it worth 30xp ?
I am probably overthinking this by a lot but like I said I have re-read it a few times and going with the example of the 5th level PCs taking on a 2nd level monster this is what makes most sense. Anywho thank you in advance for the clarifications of these rules.
in sort yes.
p. 489 has it a bit more streamlined.
You basically decide the degree of difficulty of the encounter (easy, moderete, severe, etc), put in as many creatures as you need to reach the "xp budget" of said encounter, and if the players win, each get that much xp.
in your "So selecting a creature that is -1 (let's say animated broom) would make it worth 30xp ?" keep in mind that "30 xp" is lower than even a "trivial threat" xp budget.
ok thanks , I thought I was on the right track but think I was wayyy to overthinking it. So essentially just keep filling it up until you reach the xp budget.