Recent content by Steady Vane

As for not valuing the conditions properly using this system, short answer yes. You are totally right, the quirks lead to undervalued status effects in general it sure looks like

Hey so I was using the average real values by CR from Blog of Holding and Forge of Foes. That was the data points lol, the DMG guidelines are kind of skewed from what monsters turned out to be. You can technically get to the printed monster stats by following the DMG guidelines but it takes a...

Spell design does follow the 2014 DMG table rather closely. The notable exceptions are that 1st level spells tend to do slightly more than the table suggests, so as are not outclassed by cantrips; and that at every spell level around two spells do more than the table because WOTC felt like it...