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<blockquote data-quote="James Jacobs" data-source="post: 5027343" data-attributes="member: 23937"><p>We did a LOT of rebalancing of monsters so that they'd more closely match the expectations of their CR score, actually. In some cases, this mean nerfing monsters (usually monsters that also had rend attacks). In others, it meant buffing monsters. In one or two cases, it meant reassigning CR scores entirely.</p><p></p><p>HOWEVER! 3.5 monsters still work mostly the same way in Pathfinder; as others have noted above, you can convert them pretty quickly by just calculating CMB/CMD and ignoring the lower of two similar skill values. Lowering CR by 1 is a pretty good ad-hoc rule, since the characters in Pathfinder are a little bit more powerful at lower levels (but don't confuse more options in building a charcter with more powerful; at higher levels the power discrepancy between Pathfinder PCs and 3.5 PCs begins to narrow, especially when you take into account changes to many higher level spells) and for the most part monsters in 3.5 tended to be a little bit under-CRd anyway.</p><p></p><p>Of course, don't be afraid to switch a monster's CR score in the middle of the game if it turns out that it's too tough or too easy!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Jacobs, post: 5027343, member: 23937"] We did a LOT of rebalancing of monsters so that they'd more closely match the expectations of their CR score, actually. In some cases, this mean nerfing monsters (usually monsters that also had rend attacks). In others, it meant buffing monsters. In one or two cases, it meant reassigning CR scores entirely. HOWEVER! 3.5 monsters still work mostly the same way in Pathfinder; as others have noted above, you can convert them pretty quickly by just calculating CMB/CMD and ignoring the lower of two similar skill values. Lowering CR by 1 is a pretty good ad-hoc rule, since the characters in Pathfinder are a little bit more powerful at lower levels (but don't confuse more options in building a charcter with more powerful; at higher levels the power discrepancy between Pathfinder PCs and 3.5 PCs begins to narrow, especially when you take into account changes to many higher level spells) and for the most part monsters in 3.5 tended to be a little bit under-CRd anyway. Of course, don't be afraid to switch a monster's CR score in the middle of the game if it turns out that it's too tough or too easy! [/QUOTE]
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