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    CR/EL System View

    Yeah, Cook was 3.0. I think in the article for the 3.0 thing someone flat out admitted that the Dragon CRs were deliberately kept low. It was close to the time of 3.5, perhaps a bit after when I read the article. I'm not too big a fan of dragons period in Dungeons and Dragons.
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    CR/EL System View

    I wish I had the link to the article where someone, I believe Monte Cook, copped to it and said "Yeah, we deliberately kept dragon CRs low."
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    CR/EL System View

    There are plenty of flying creatures out there that could fly against the fighter, no sweat. All the dragons and most drakes, Elder arrowhawks, Chimeras, Manticores, Dragonnes, Hieracosphinxs, Wyverns, Will-o-the-whisps, Efreeti, and on and on and on. Flying at 60 good is nice but it is hardly a...
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    CR/EL System View

    Does anyone else feel that certain types of monsters are underCRd because of the "wowee! Neato!" nature of their type? I'm thinking of outsiders, especially demons, devils, and angels, and things with the Dragon subtype.
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    CR/EL System View

    Not without blowing actions on drinking potions of Fly they can't. Not to be a dick or anything, but 3 more creatures that beat that NPC Fighter 16 HD Tendriculos Hellwasp Swarm Young Adult White Dragon
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    CR/EL System View

    Flying is something the 8th level swordswinger most likely cannot do. Any demon, elemental, or magical beast that can fly will destroy the typical single digit level melee character. And this makes the EL/CR system balanced how exactly? Oh, and an elder Xorn would wreck that NPC fighter, too...
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    Save or die spells/effects

    Sleep is no good anymore in 3.5, Color Spray is the new hotness. The first time you stun something for multiple rounds with that puppy is intensely satisfying. Plus, at the low levels you're fighting a bunch of scrub creatures that really have little hope of passing a DC 13-15 will save. It is...
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    CR/EL System View

    Nobody else wanted to type Hellcock? Nobody? Well that is a shame. Other Creatures that I think would whup an 8th level NPC Fighter's ass... 10 HD Remorhaz 14 HD Huge Cloaker Tyranosaurus 17 HD Assassin Vine Classed Barghest 11 HD Huge Belker 12 HD Bulette 12 HD Aboleth 4 9 HD Dire Wolves who...
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    CR/EL System View

    To take the conversation in a different and less confrontational direction does anyone think the non-associated distinction is broken in that at certain HD and CR configurations you can get things that cast at their CR, with tons of GP and base monster goodies, all for the same CR? That really...
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    Save or die spells/effects

    Not giving it up for stud games, huh? I hate Texas Hold 'Em, mostly because I'm worse at it than just about every other form of poker imaginable. Possession poker razz, now thats where its at! I think save or dies are a bit anticlimactic. If you've got great saves the enemy pretty much wastes a...
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    CR/EL System View

    The giants are the core pinnacle of combat meastiness, perhaps having an 8th level core fighter try to outmeast a Stone Giant is a bit unfair? Lets have a breakdown of the 8th level fighter versus some scrub monsters. 8th level Fighter Versus 10-diced Elite scored Hellcock(Technically achaierai...
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    Derogatory term for cohort

    A character with quick draw and numerous backup and situational weapons calling his cohort "caddy", like a golf caddy.
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    Cheesy In-game things that make you want to scream.

    Brains and Brawn Its never really two equal or relatively mechanically similar leaders, is it? One is the beatstick, the other is the magical guy or sheister. And there can never be equals, oh noneenonono! The guy with the lower intelligence score is almost always second fiddle, too. One of...
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    CR/EL System View

    8th level Fighter versus Efreeti is a laugh, too. The Efreeti is superior in all fighting categories except AC, has far better saves, is a lot more mobile, and it has a boatload of SLAs. Fact is, the 8th level fighter gets equalled or clowned by CR 8 monsters just from the MM. NPCs CR is off...
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    Derogatory term for cohort

    Who spells it biotch? I've always spelled it and said it "beeyotch".
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    Races known to be slavers?

    Are the Tso fundamentally different than Tsochari, the other race in Lords of Madness? The devouring and tricksiness of them makes them good slavers/party betrayers in my book. Maybe they could be giving Grells the food hookup?
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    Derogatory term for cohort

    Stick Barn Noob Corpseriffler(hey, somebody's gotta do it!)
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    CR/EL System View

    I find that monster strength varies so much from book to book and that the party's makeup has such a radical effect on what a CR should be that I've been chucking assigned CRs out the window for the past 2 or so years. The fact that CR errata has been issued for plenty of books and monsters just...
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    Did someone declare January "Edition Wars" month?

    The rag is lit, baby. The rag is lit!
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    Did someone declare January "Edition Wars" month?

    But 4th edition was already made, sort of, with Hackmaster. Edition wars are so stupid, I don't see what the point of them is.
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