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The collapsible legend is wrong

Open NoudL opened this issue 6 years ago • 2 comments

The collapsible legend in the lower right corner gives information such as "Group: Four of these is a medium challenge" it says that about the light purple color which corresponds to 1/4 CR when using a party of 4 level 1 characters. However, building an encounter of four 1/4CR enemies is actually "Deadly", which the encounter builder correctly states. I think the legend doesn't take the Adjusted XP into mind. Because 1/4CR creatures give 50 xp. 50 * 4 is 200 which would correspond to a "medium" challenge were it not for the adjusted xp rule.

NoudL avatar Nov 05 '18 20:11 NoudL

It's an estimation which isn't perfect. I haven't looked at the code for a long time, but it seems like the estimation is less accurate at lower levels.

I just checked with a party of 4 level 10 characters, and CR 3 is marked as pink, and 4 of them is indeed a "medium" challenge per the encounter building guidelines.

Asmor avatar Nov 05 '18 20:11 Asmor

With a party of 4 level 10 characters, a CR 4 is marked as pink as well, however 4 of them are a hard challenge, not medium.

4 level 10 characters: Easy: 2,400 exp Medium: 4,800 exp Hard: 7,600 exp Deadly: 11,200 exp

4 CR 4 creatures: Total XP: 4,400 (1,100 per player) Adjusted XP: 8,800 (2,200 per player) Difficulty: Hard Legend Color: Pink "Group: Four of these is a medium challenge"

Looks like the legend is reading from the total xp, not the adjusted xp. I'll see if I can't fix it and get something submitted once I'm more familiar with the code base.

sbards avatar Dec 02 '18 03:12 sbards