Encounter difficulty calculator
Enter your characters' levels and add monsters — from the SRD 5.2 bestiary or just by challenge rating. The calculator sums the monsters' XP and compares it with the party budget: low, moderate or high difficulty.
Monsters
MonsterCRCountGoblin Warrior
low
Monster XP: 200 · XP each: 50
- low600
- moderate900
- high1600
By the 2024 rules: the total XP of all monsters is compared to the party budget — the sum of each hero’s budget by level for low, moderate and high difficulty. A budget is the ceiling of its level; XP above the high budget is “beyond high”.
CR is the monster's challenge rating, as in the bestiary.
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