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VM versus M9

One very quick disclaimer: Whenever I am talking about Vox Machina as a group of a certain level, that is an approximation, as unlike the Mighty Nein or Bells Hells, Vox Machina used experience based leveling rather than milestones, which ultimately means that they did not all level up at the same time. Generally, when I say "Vox Machina were x level" it means that the majority of the party were that level, and none exceeded it. I may have done my math incorrectly at some points, in which case please feel free to let me know!

Between the levels of 9 and 17, Vox Machina made 74 group stealth checks, and the Mighty Nein made 54. First, before we get into comparative averages, I want to take a look at how many of these were with Pass Without Trace.

As you can see, 60% of Vox Machina's checks had Pass Without Trace up, while only 53.7% of the Mighty Nein's did.

Now let's look at the comparison!

So it seems Vox Machina scored consistently higher on group stealth checks than the Mighty Nein, even when taking the levels and Pass Without Trace into account! Probably because they had 2 rogues.

M9 versus BH

Between the levels of 3 and 8, the Mighty Nein made 46 group stealth checks and Bells Hells have thus far made 30. Once again, let's first compare their usage of Pass Without Trace at these levels. For Bells Hells, I am simply going to copy over the chart from their post, so excuse the slightly vague title.

That is a huge discrepancy! Only 23% of the Nein's rolls were made with Pass Without Trace, whereas 43% of the Hells' were. Let's keep that in mind when we look at the comparison.

Overall, Bells Hells are doing better than the Nein did at their level, but the Nein performed better when under Pass Without Trace. Take these values with a pinch of salt, and consider the sample sizes here: Bells Hells have done 17 checks without PWT, while the Nein did 35. And the Nein did only 11 checks with the spell cast, but the Hells did 13.

Ultimately, all of the averages are relatively close together! Vox Machina are a little sneakier, but none of the parties are terrible, by any means!

Finally, because I meant to include this in the individual posts but completely forgot, let's see some records, shall we?

The most group stealth checks rolled in one episode of campaign one was 4, in four different episodes: e4, e47, e92 and e113. The averages for those episodes were: e4 - 18.47; e47 - 36.72; e92 - 27.41; and e113 - 25.68

The most group stealth checks rolled in a single episode of campaign two was NEIN! Yes, really. Nine group stealth checks were rolled in episode 68, most of them wen they were trying to cross that chasm. The average for that episode was 25.39

The most group stealth checks rolled in one episode of campaign three thus far has been 5 in episode 48. The average for that episode was 22.59