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<blockquote data-quote="Older Beholder" data-source="post: 7523183" data-attributes="member: 6813585"><p>Not to get into a whole thing about Challenge Ratings, but I was wondering if you’d come across any monsters that in play were far more dangerous than the monsters manual would have you believe. (I think generally there’s a feeling monsters can be a bit weak)</p><p> </p><p>I bring this up because in my last campaign I used a Revenant to track down a party member,</p><p>Early on in the campaign the party was going through a cemetery and came across a number of tombs. In one they found a coffin that was completely surrounded by an unbroken circle of gold coins, which of course one of the PC’s was happy to fill his pockets with before leaving.</p><p> </p><p>Now I didn’t have much planned for this, but l thought a revenant was a good fit for the purposes, but it was too powerful at that stage (I think the PC’s were only level 4, and there’s only 3 players) but that was OK because they soon got themselves teleported to the other side of the map and had to begin making their way back. By the time they got back to where the undead waited they were level 8. With a few ghouls that had joined the revenant, the hunted character was killed pretty easily in the encounter.</p><p> </p><p>Now, I know it gets a lot easier to kill someone if the monster just focuses on one character, but I did wonder if the revenant is designed to be used in a way where the PC’s are trying to save an NPC that’s being hunted, because at CR 5, it didn’t really crack a sweat taking down a level 8 character.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Older Beholder, post: 7523183, member: 6813585"] Not to get into a whole thing about Challenge Ratings, but I was wondering if you’d come across any monsters that in play were far more dangerous than the monsters manual would have you believe. (I think generally there’s a feeling monsters can be a bit weak) I bring this up because in my last campaign I used a Revenant to track down a party member, Early on in the campaign the party was going through a cemetery and came across a number of tombs. In one they found a coffin that was completely surrounded by an unbroken circle of gold coins, which of course one of the PC’s was happy to fill his pockets with before leaving. Now I didn’t have much planned for this, but l thought a revenant was a good fit for the purposes, but it was too powerful at that stage (I think the PC’s were only level 4, and there’s only 3 players) but that was OK because they soon got themselves teleported to the other side of the map and had to begin making their way back. By the time they got back to where the undead waited they were level 8. With a few ghouls that had joined the revenant, the hunted character was killed pretty easily in the encounter. Now, I know it gets a lot easier to kill someone if the monster just focuses on one character, but I did wonder if the revenant is designed to be used in a way where the PC’s are trying to save an NPC that’s being hunted, because at CR 5, it didn’t really crack a sweat taking down a level 8 character. [/QUOTE]
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