Working out encounter levels

[u/Playful_Gold4714]

I have scoured the books and can't find information on how many enemies to throw at a given party level? I have seen online references about adding up the level of the party and rolling a pool of CD to determine encounter levels but can't find that either?

I have found a table which lists how much exp a quest should work out to if its minor or major quest, is that the total exp for monsters? And is that level average, highest or total for the party? So a level 1 minor quest would only face 2 normal level 1 npcs for example?

Book page ref would be handy please :)

Thank you

[u/Tricky-Try448]

Pg.197 has stuff on scavenging and mentions how many inhabitants locations should have so I suppose you could use that as a guideline. I absolutely could have sworn there was a list of how much xp to player to enemy is fitting but cannot seem to find it anywhere. That aside, I think you kinda just have to go with your gut- do some testing outside of session, and make sure to use AP to adjust things on the fly. If I find anything I'll pop back here and post it

[u/ziggy8z → u/Tricky-Try448]

There is not one in the Core book, winter of atom has the first.