Timeline for What challenge ratings can my party handle?
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| Jul 3, 2015 at 14:34 | comment | added | KRyan | @ThomasJacobs Don’t see why not, but it is kind of unclear. | |
| Jul 3, 2015 at 14:14 | comment | added | Thomas Jacobs | @KRyan Can the Tarrasque Run (4x movement speed as full action) when doing that? If so, it's actually faster than the Allip. | |
| Jul 3, 2015 at 13:46 | comment | added | KRyan | @ThomasJacobs I was referring to Rush, but forgot it was only 1/minute | |
| Jul 3, 2015 at 13:14 | comment | added | Thomas Jacobs | @KRyan The Tarrasque has a speed of 20 ft. and the Allip has a speed of 30 ft. Fly (Perfect). So I'm not sure the Tarrasque could get away even if it tried. | |
| Dec 21, 2012 at 15:58 | comment | added | KRyan | @Ernir: Agreed; I honestly have long since forgotten the fiddly details of EL and CR after giving up on the entire system, plus Matt Hamsmith had already answered that question quite well. | |
| Dec 21, 2012 at 15:57 | comment | added | KRyan | @DampeS8N: I don't have one. I don't think one is possible. In order to have a consistent metric, monsters and PCs would have to have something resembling balance. They have nothing even remotely like balance. There's just no way, other than eyeballing on a case-by-case basis (these monsters vs. these PCs). | |
| Dec 21, 2012 at 15:19 | comment | added | Ernir | I think this answer contains a lot of very useful information, but I do not think it answers the question. | |
| Dec 21, 2012 at 14:36 | comment | added | DampeS8N | @KRyan You could improve the answer by offering an alternative method. Presumably once you know your monsters there is some metric that can be used to estimate their strength. That or you can list the top 10 overpowered and underpowered aspects of monsters and some of their counters, which can help give other DMs ideas on specifically over/under powered monsters to toss at their party. Like you did for Allip and Tarrasque. You gave plausible cases where either can be used in the 'wrong' situation to great effect for the players. | |
| Dec 21, 2012 at 2:05 | comment | added | KRyan | @RMorrisey: Well, it may help someone who seems to have been doing fine from falling into the trap of messing things up by trying to do things "right." Sadly, though, it's the best answer I think can be given. CR is close to useless, it's so inaccurate. | |
| Dec 21, 2012 at 0:31 | comment | added | RMorrisey | This answer is very accurate but not very helpful IMO. | |
| Dec 20, 2012 at 21:14 | history | edited | KRyan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
acknowledging the Tarrasque's superior speed
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| Dec 20, 2012 at 20:58 | history | answered | KRyan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |