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Thanks ccooke everything you are saying about the Imp and Quasit makes pretty good sense, on the surface. Now let's see how I go about enumerating it all, lol. Yes, I'm aware of some of the situational issues between CR½ and CR1 :-) Sometimes it's just properly understanding and then...

OK I noticed I'd copy-pasted some of the NADs from the various sources instead of actually calculating them. I'll update post #1 now. Between that, factoring in advantage/disadvantage percent and separating out things like resistance much of CR1 vs CR½ has clarified. But no matter how I turn...

OK good. I'll add the Scout shortly. The high Stealth/Perception suggests they are designed for ambush attacks and if they focus-fire a single PC in the surprise round (and most of the PCs will likely be surprised) they could easily 0 or kill one PC outright. Ah! So there's a synergy with the...

Also in Basic DM v0.1, which is where I got it from. Damned fat fingers! I will correct this in post #1! Thank you peoples!

Well the CR evaluation process is a little tougher to crack than expected. I talk about why in this thread and who knows... Maybe you can help??

Monster Math: CR1 vs CR½ - Quantifying the differences So for the next article in my analysis series I am working on a CR evaluation method. It's a pretty flexible model and aims to produce results in the neighbourhood of +/-5% of traditional deeper monster analysis and evaluation methods...

The vote choices aren't quite broad enough :-) My approaching-finished CR assessment method currently shows over 92% accuracy in assessment for monsters of CR1 or higher. That includes the 7 dragons available before the Monster Manual. About half of these are at the top of their CR or slightly...

There's a convention for Spellcasting tho and honestly it is clearer than hiding the slots away in the description. Then again I guess you are the only one using this critter so it's sort of a moot point...

Convention is to show these in braces after the spell level, not by putting the unclear "...he has 3 spell slots..." in the Spellcasting description. I've not seen Spellcasting outlined this way yet. I'd suggest removing that part from the description and updating the spell list to the standard...

My critique... Average attribute is a bit too high. Max attribute is slightly high, but OK. HP are slightly low for a CR8. Damage is slightly high for a CR8 - I'm assuming it'll attack thrice with Pact Blade. HP and Damage alone balance out to a high-CR8 or low-CR9 monster. I left the...

Yep. It's also about HP and Damage output... Well properly CR is about a monster's total Defense and Offense combined. CR is what aligns a monster with PC "level". IMHO it would have been best to use Level 30 instead of CR30, but that ship has sailed.

LMAO! Yeah I know exactly what you mean. I don't know if I'll get to it or not... But I do keep a list of article suggestions and this is on it (I'll give it a +1 as a result of your suggestion).

Just posted Part 9: Construction: Attack Bonus!

OK Part 8: Construction: Actions is now up... Sick em gang!

Glad you enjoyed it! Quick spell damage evaluation... Cone Of Cold (L5) = 135 Ice Storm (L4) = 86.25 Fireball (L4) = 118.125 Fireball (L3) = 105 If I was running the Mage against a L6 group of 4 PCs they'd have an average of 196 Hit Points. I wouldn't use Ice Storm unless the other...

I haven't done any formal analysis on this yet, but I have looked at it in passing. Right now I think that it's effectively a flip-side to damage, that PCs with healing spells/powers can spend those to do approximately the same healing as an equivalent resource would in damage. So if a level 3...

OK folks, Part 7: Construction: Damage is now up. Since folks have already asked on Reddit here's why AoE gets a x1.5 instead of a x0.75...

It's an ambush creature. It goes something like this... Wait until entire party is in range. Get surprise round. Make 2 attacks per PC, latching onto most of the weaker PCs with two tentacles for 12 damage. One of the weaker PCs breaks free, the other doesn't. The other two PCs...

With oddball creatures like that it gets tricky, for sure and a nasty DM can do some terrible things with such creatures. CR seems to have it's biggest emphasis on Damage, then HP with AC and Attack bonus being fine-tuners. The Intellect Devourer has 21HP and that clearly labels it as a...

Thanks doctorhook !