I have to wonder how many of the WWII type of games (both realistic and fantastic) ever venture into the actual concentration camps. The only RPG that takes place in that era that I own is GURPS WWII (published 2001). That book is almost entirely about warfare (no fantasy at all in it), with only two small sidebars referencing the actual Holocaust--maybe four or five short paragraphs worth of text.
D&D does: 12+.
Roots was TV-14 as an example.
Fair enough--although I will say it's not the "big eyes small mouth" type of art (I'm not hugely fond of that art style either).
I literally don't care what the rules say on that. If the CR system is so weak that having monsters fire arrows from a distance means a combat isn't balanced, then the CR system is broken.
I was off. It's not 18k per day for the party, it was 18k per day per PC over 6-8 encounters. That single fight was 3900xp per PC for a total of 15800x2 for 4 creatures. So 31600. Almost half of the daily budget. That comes to 7900xp per PC which as noted is well above deadly for a 15th level group.
Thank you for the breakdown and coming back to clarify/correct.
Let me ask you a question that I believe the answer might explain part of the difference in what we have seen.
Just firing arrows at a distance doesn't mean much, since the party has ranged weapons/spells as well and are more effective at using them. To make ranged monsters an improved threat, you need to set up the battlefield to give them and not the PCs an advantage. Height that makes them hard to reach, cover and so on.
