Hola.
I'm thinking of fiddling with my campaign's cosmology, creating new sets of Lawful and Chaotic outsiders. One thing I often have trouble with is estimating CR.
Grim Tales was recomended as a good system to calculate CR for a creature. I bought the guidelines and calculator, and it seems straightforward and flexible (if complicated).
However, testing it out on a creature I had modled on a Minor Xorn, it came up with a CR of 4. I was aiming for a CR of 3. Testing it out on a minor Xorn, which is a CR of three, it came up with a CR of 4.
So my questions to any one who's used the system is:
Compared to the SRD RAW, does the Grim Tales CR system consistently under or over value CR's?
If so, does this have anything to do with the Grim Tales system? The logo says: High Adventure, low magic. I know that when I play D20 Modern, DND monsters can be wildly inappropriate challenges for their DND CR. If I were using the Grim Tales system to create monsters for DND, should I consistently lower the CR by 1? Or a certain percentage?
Any opinion is appreciated.
I'm thinking about using the SRD monsters and just rearranging their alignments and appearences. It seems easier, but the problem I have is that I'd like outsiders that were lower level challenges, and teh SRD is woefully short on those. I'd like to be able to do groups and hoards of outisiders at lowish levels (8th to 10th?)
I'm thinking of fiddling with my campaign's cosmology, creating new sets of Lawful and Chaotic outsiders. One thing I often have trouble with is estimating CR.
Grim Tales was recomended as a good system to calculate CR for a creature. I bought the guidelines and calculator, and it seems straightforward and flexible (if complicated).
However, testing it out on a creature I had modled on a Minor Xorn, it came up with a CR of 4. I was aiming for a CR of 3. Testing it out on a minor Xorn, which is a CR of three, it came up with a CR of 4.
So my questions to any one who's used the system is:
Compared to the SRD RAW, does the Grim Tales CR system consistently under or over value CR's?
If so, does this have anything to do with the Grim Tales system? The logo says: High Adventure, low magic. I know that when I play D20 Modern, DND monsters can be wildly inappropriate challenges for their DND CR. If I were using the Grim Tales system to create monsters for DND, should I consistently lower the CR by 1? Or a certain percentage?
Any opinion is appreciated.
I'm thinking about using the SRD monsters and just rearranging their alignments and appearences. It seems easier, but the problem I have is that I'd like outsiders that were lower level challenges, and teh SRD is woefully short on those. I'd like to be able to do groups and hoards of outisiders at lowish levels (8th to 10th?)