Timeline for What character level is the Tomb of Horrors for?
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| May 22, 2022 at 19:21 | comment | added | Nobody the Hobgoblin | @GreySage Rob Kuntz who played this in its original incarnation under Gary Gygax was savvy enough to scoop the loot in the inner sanctum and run for it before Acererak could get in on the action. It can be done. | |
| Oct 16, 2018 at 19:00 | comment | added | GreySage | @r256 if by "savy" you mean "don't touch anything except the 1 thing you need to touch immediately, with no clue or hint given at all", then sure... | |
| May 1, 2017 at 17:06 | comment | added | r256 | Acererak-style demiliches in their lair are CR23, not CR18. Still, that encounter is more of a trap, and savvy players can avoid it. | |
| Apr 30, 2017 at 1:52 | comment | added | Slagmoth | @DanB there are only a half dozen traditional combat encounters, the rest is puzzles and deadly traps and averaging the CR is sort of difficult given that certain circumstances modify the encounters themselves but strictly by tallying the CRs the average is about 7.5. The lowest is a trio of 1/4 CRs that can increase drastically if the players screw up and the highest is CR18. This is just for the monsters themselves and you will definitely not be at full resources when facing the CR18. | |
| Apr 29, 2017 at 23:05 | comment | added | Dan B | So, if we disregard the fatal content, what is the average CR of the traditional combat encounters? | |
| Apr 29, 2017 at 22:18 | comment | added | GMJoe | @DanB A number of Tomb of Horrors encounters are "Oh, you touch the wall? You die without a saving throw, leaving no body." It's not that there aren't traditional combat encounters as well, but the large amount of fatal content skews things harder than what normal 5e challenge rating estimation is designed to handle. | |
| Apr 29, 2017 at 21:44 | comment | added | Dan B | I don't know much about tomb of horrors, but I would be more impressed by an answer that based it's level estimate on the CR of the encounters in the module. Does this module just not contain encounters? | |
| Apr 29, 2017 at 21:10 | history | edited | Slagmoth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 29, 2017 at 20:59 | history | answered | Slagmoth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |