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[drow]

a question, for those of you who have more experience with the system, what's a "fair" encounter consist of for a party of four or five 1st level characters?
is a single HD1 monster going to be a decent fight, or does the party just steamroller it?
are four or five HD1 monsters going to be a decent brawl, or a TPK?

[SethDrebitko]

Welcome to the forum! What is the party made up of? For example: you will want to challenge a group of all fighters differently than wizards. Overall without know party consistancy, or what types of gear they have, I would go with 2 1hd monsters as kind of a feeler encounter and add as appropriate.

Usualy when my group makes new characters I do a test run myself of 1-2 fights, if I am not improving, to see how they fair "in theory".

Hope that helped; if you need anything else we are all ready and willing!

[dymond]

I think they could go toe to toe with at least their equal in HD1 monsters..

[drow]

thanks for the responses.  i'm adjusting a random dungeon generator, so i don't actually know what the party consists of. 
i just want to get close, the DM can always change things as necessary.  my current model is that 1d4+1 of an X HD monster
is fair game for a level X dungeon, with some encounters weaker than this baseline, and some stronger.

http://donjon.bin.sh/dungeon/?m20

[SethDrebitko]

Did you make that generator? If so it is awesome and great job! I would say the formula sounds good; I might add "or 1d4+3 per advanced encounter." The second bit would account for those things the characters need either avoid or think around.

[drow]

yeah.  i'd recently completed an overhaul of my d20 random generator (which i'm pretty sure a few people here are familiar with) for a 4e version.
and since that overhaul makes addtional versions pretty easy to implement, the microlite20 version.

cheers!

[The Bane]

This is truly awesome! Thanks for sharing your creative works! If I may, and it is only a minor suggestion that some may agree or disagree with so implement it as you see or don't see fit, I would suggest that every entrance to a room does not need some form of 'doorway'. If you could add in the random use of no 'door' that would take it from 99.9% awesome to the 100% buttered toast rating for me (I love buttered toast BTW). 

Now, questions: Will there be an off-line version? Will there be an option to chose a 'monster type' in the 'Motif' drop-down?

This is awesome!
TB

[drow]

doors; simple archways do sometimes show up in the dungeon.

off-line; probably not, sorry.  the generator relies on a megalithic back-end of code and data files
which must be constantly attended by enslaved adventurers.

monster type; monsters are selected by the dungeon level and motif, wherever possible.
where there are few appropriate monsters (level 1 giant dungeon), it goes to either
some filler monsters (goblins are found nearly everywhere),
higher or lower level monsters (watch out for 3HD shadows lurking on level 1 of the crypts of the undead),
or random monsters (inspired by lord greywulf's critters generator).

[Zartes]

random monsters (inspired by lord greywulf's critters generator).

speaking of which, does anybody have a link to that? Or failing that, could drow manufacture a random critter generator independent of the dungeon generator?

[drow]

http://home.greywulf.net/files/critters.cgi
http://home.greywulf.net/files/critters

http://donjon.bin.sh/m20/monster/

[Zartes]

Awesome! Thanks!