Calculate Total XP of Monsters for Given Party Level and Difficulty

Returns the total XP (experience points) of all creatures that would make an encounter the specified level of difficulty for a party of the supplied level. This 'pool' can be used by a GM (game master) to "purchase" monsters to identify how many a party is likely to be able to handle given their average level. NOTE: this does not take into account creature-specific abilities or traits so care should be taken if a monster has many such traits that modify its difficulty beyond its experience point value.

Usage

xp_pool(party_level = NULL, party_size = NULL, difficulty = NULL)

Arguments

party_level: (numeric) integer indicating the average party level. If all players are the same level, that level is the average party level. Non-integer values are supported but results will be slightly affected
party_size: (numeric) integer indicating how many player characters (PCs) are in the party
difficulty: (character) one of "easy", "medium", "hard", or "deadly" for the desired difficulty of the encounter.

Value

(numeric) total encounter XP as an integer

Examples

# Supply a party level and difficulty and get the total XP of such an encounter
xp_pool(party_level = 3, party_size = 2, difficulty = 'medium')
#> [1] 370