Encounter Difficulty Calculator

Fifth-edition encounter maths for the 2024 XP budget and the 2014 thresholds. Free, instant, nothing leaves your browser.

Party

Quick set: N characters of level

Monsters

2024 rules — XP budget

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2014 rules — thresholds

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Guidance only: terrain, tactics, resources and party make-up matter more than any formula. The 2024 method sums monster XP; the 2014 method multiplies by a monster-count factor.

Run it at the table

BattleLedger builds the encounter from a full offline bestiary, shows this difficulty live, then tracks initiative, HP and conditions. See the app.