I am a relatively new DM. I’m prepping to start decent into avernus this weekend. The group of player I have are fantastic, except they want to start out at level 5 instead of the recommended level 1 for the adventure. What tips and pointers could I get on how to upscale the adventure without just skipping to the level five portion of the adventure?
Basically you can just either add more monsters or upgrade the ones you would run into to a better version (like Bandit to Thug, etc.). I like using this encounter calculator to figure out what sort of CR monsters I need for any given fight and then peruse the monster list until I find something that will work for the story I'm running.
Hello all!
I am a relatively new DM. I’m prepping to start decent into avernus this weekend. The group of player I have are fantastic, except they want to start out at level 5 instead of the recommended level 1 for the adventure. What tips and pointers could I get on how to upscale the adventure without just skipping to the level five portion of the adventure?
Thanks!
Jfizzly
Basically you can just either add more monsters or upgrade the ones you would run into to a better version (like Bandit to Thug, etc.). I like using this encounter calculator to figure out what sort of CR monsters I need for any given fight and then peruse the monster list until I find something that will work for the story I'm running.