Director Resource, Encounter Sheet

[edgy lance]

Hi!
I made an editable encounter sheet in Google Sheets.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IBHhmapr0cMPiXo8-LZYT5IprHCxNmb-l3RzFsosHdE/edit?usp=sharing

I was wondering if any Sheets wizards would give me some advice or tips on this.
Its based off the format of the Delian Tomb encounter sheets, but I'm wondering if other directors prefer having different parts of a statblock on this sheet?

[sage rampart]

i really like this! is there a way to increase the amount of a certain type of monster in an intative group?

as it stands if i wanna add multiples of the same stat block theres only two "slots" in an IG for them

also is there a way to implement retainers? retainers increase ES but not malice gain

[edgy lance]

Short answer. With minions you can! With non-minions, I found 2 slots is the best number of slots/statblock per initiative group.

[sage rampart]

I found 2 slots is the best number of slots/statblock per initiative group
could you elaborate?

[edgy lance]

For minions, it is possible to add more minions per slot. There is x4 and x8 options. (I dont think you should have 16 minions in one group) the x8 is for when I want a squad of 8 minions with a captain.

For horde monsters, two same level horde monsters equals the EV of 1 hero. I imagined a directer using many non minions monsters would use more initiative groups, rather than initiative groups with many monsters. While you could have 3 or even 4 horde monsters in one group, the Director turn would start to get over-long.

For Platoon and Elite type monsters, they have more EV (platoon monsters have EV equal to the ES of Heroes of the same level). So more than 2 per group is overkill.

[sage rampart]

any advice for retainers btw?

[edgy lance]

Thats something I have on my list to implement. I need to read and think more before I have a good answer.

For now i would say, since they dont increase malice generation, that you would

1. build the encounter without calculating the retainer. This would give you the base line malice generation and difficulty.

2. then, add additional monsters whit EV comperable to another hero.