For encounter difficulty calculation, would the alternate encounter building charts in Unearthed Arcana (https://media.wizards.com/2016/dnd/downloads/Encounter_Building.pdf) work for converting CR and Level? (Meaning 1:1 is the level at which a character could be equal to the CR)
For encounter difficulty calculation, would the alternate encounter building charts in Unearthed Arcana (https://media.wizards.com/2016/dnd/downloads/Encounter_Building.pdf) work for converting CR and Level? (Meaning 1:1 is the level at which a character could be equal to the CR)
I've done several PC builds for NPCs and checked them against the DMG tables.
Most of the builds ended up at a CR roughly equal to level - 4. So I would use that for encounter difficulty. :-)
If you have a specific build you can calculate the CR using the DMG guidelines:
https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dmg/dungeon-masters-workshop#CreatingaMonster
Those charts are from XGtE, not UA.
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they were in UA first, I think for playtesting, then moved to Xanathar's guide