5e D&D Xp, encounters & hordes analysis part 1

Post date: Aug 5, 2016 5:12:08 PM

I will leave a link to the full analysis when I get a chance.  This shows the number of medium encounters it takes to level up at each level, the number of hoards per level, approximate whole number of hordes at each level, and the number of Encounters per horde per the DMG.  I want to add average gp and magic per level and encounter, but that's quite a bit more work.  I was looking around to see if anyone had done this yet, but it looks like those who did made some assumptions instead of doing the math that are incorrect.  This would also affect the sample hoards below as I just guessed there when hoards should be received.

I'd also like to do this based on the random dungeon appendix instead of the suggestions in the DMG.

Level enc@lv hoards@lv whole Encounters per horde

lst 6 1.1 1 0-4 5.71

2nd 6 1.1 1 5-10 5.17

3rd 12 2.1 2 11-16 4.92

4th 16 2.8 3 17-20 3.75

5th 15 2.9 3

6th 15 2.9 3

7th 15 2.9 3

8th 16 3.1 3

9th 14 2.7 3

lOth 18 3.5 3

llth 10 2.0 2

12th 10 2.0 2

13th 9 1.8 2

14th 10 2.0 2

15th 11 2.2 2

16th 9 1.8 2

17th 11 2.9 3

18th 9 2.4 2

19th 10 2.7 3

20th ? ? ?

After all that, I found some proper analyses after all so linking them:

http://dmdavid.com/tag/what-is-the-typical-amout-of-treasure-awarded-in-a-fifth-edition-dungeons-dragons-campaign/

http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?437937-Magic-Item-Math-of-5

pproximate gp per encounter per person is easy to get with the supplied info on those pages

Tier Encounter Per person per encounter

0-4 65.8 16.5

5-10 879.7 219.9

11-16 7,006.5 1,751.6

17-20 273,376.3 17,886