Essentials Kit

Hi all, My party completed the starter kit last year and we were looking forward to starting the essentials kit. Can we just use the same characters at those levels (5ish) to start the essentials kit? Will the battles be hard enough or do I need to manual tone them down/up? Basically, can I just pick up and go with this kit.

<a href="https://kobold.club/fight/#/encounter-builder" rel="nofollow">https://kobold.club/fight/#/encounter-builder</a> &nbsp;has all your needs for determining CR for early levels to high levels but some parties and compositions may be weaker or stronger than others.

The main adventure is designed to take characters from levels 1-6. If you buy the deluxe edition, it includes adventures that can take your players to level 11 or 12. If your players are level 5, the adventures intended for levels 1-5 will be quite easy, so you would want to consider adjusting your encounters as El Gato suggested. Alternatively, you can play the Deluxe adventures to continue on, or just start new characters at level 1 to experience the whole adventure.