D&D 5e Encounter Balancer cover

Is this fight going to kill them?

The encounter rules in the book are three tables and a multiplier that everyone gets wrong at the table. This does the arithmetic and tells you in one word.

Type the party's levels, add the monsters, and you get the adjusted XP with the correct group-size multiplier, the difficulty band, the thresholds, and plain suggestions for what to add to make it Hard or Deadly. Save each encounter to the adventuring day and it keeps the running budget so you know when the party needs a long rest.

WHAT IT DOES

  • Difficulty (Easy, Medium, Hard, Deadly) from the SRD 5.1 thresholds by level
  • Adjusted XP with the monster-count multiplier and the small-party and large-party adjustments
  • XP awarded per character
  • Tune: "add 4 more goblins" or "add one CR 2 monster (Ogre, Ghast, Gargoyle)" to reach the band you want
  • Warnings for action economy (too many monsters) and solo bosses (one big monster gets stun-locked)
  • Adventuring day: save encounters, see the running adjusted XP against the daily budget, and where the long rest has to go
  • 120 SRD monsters with CR built in; type any other monster and its CR

RUN THE FIGHT

  • One click turns the encounter into an initiative tracker: every PC and every monster instance, with typical hit points and armour class for the CR filled in and editable
  • Initiative order, round counter, next-turn button, damage and healing per combatant, conditions, and monsters greyed out when they drop

Who it's for

Dungeon masters who prep, and dungeon masters who improvise and need the answer in five seconds.

What you get

  • The balancer (one .html file, runs in any browser, offline; fine on a tablet behind the screen)
  • A 2-page quick-start guide

Uses the System Reference Document 5.1 tables under the Open Game License. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.

Good to know

  • One file. No install, no account, no subscription, no internet needed after download.
  • Your data stays on your computer. Export a backup any time; import it on another machine.
  • Works on Mac, Windows, Linux and iPad (open the file in Safari or Chrome).
  • Instant download.

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D&D 5e Encounter Balancer

difficulty, adjusted XP and the adventuring-day budget, offline

Party levels and the monsters on the table in. Adjusted XP with the group multiplier, the difficulty band, what to add to hit Hard or Deadly, a running daily budget, and then an initiative and hit-point tracker to run the fight you built, with typical HP and AC by CR filled in.

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  • DnD-5e-Encounter-Balancer.zip