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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8858948" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>Well I was trying to hew fairly closely to the original monster, in which case that's a feature not a bug. If the party decide to settle this mano-a-mano and only send one strong guy to fight the Gray Sqaarg, the Sqaarg's "Might" only matches that single opponent.</p><p></p><p>One way I did that was to make its Might build by any ability score, not just strength. So if a Gray Sqaarg only gets blasted by spells and cantrips it still waxes mightily. That plugged an obvious hole in the ability.</p><p></p><p>As for that potentially throwing off the Challenge, the CR of 5 (or whatever) I can see it going either way. If only one member of an entire group is actually fighting the construct then they will only be doing a fraction of the damage the party could do. If they did, say, a third what the entire party would do then if the sqaarg did more than that third with its lower Might score then the combat would be biased in its favour. If, say it did 2d6 damage with seize, then its damage range is from 7 with Might 0 and 15 with Might 8, or it does about double damage at full power. It it were 1d8 base damage for 4½ the range is 4 to 12 for a threefold increase.</p><p></p><p>One work around I toyed with the idea of was giving the Gray Sqaarg the option to take an Action to apply its own +5 Strength bonus to its Might. That gave me the mental image of the Sqaarg punching itself in its own face to juice itself up, but I suppose it could strike heroic body builder poses instead…</p><p></p><p>It felt a bit silly, but I left a remnant in the example by suggesting other Sqaargs could wrestle their companions to lend them their Strength.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 8858948, member: 57383"] Well I was trying to hew fairly closely to the original monster, in which case that's a feature not a bug. If the party decide to settle this mano-a-mano and only send one strong guy to fight the Gray Sqaarg, the Sqaarg's "Might" only matches that single opponent. One way I did that was to make its Might build by any ability score, not just strength. So if a Gray Sqaarg only gets blasted by spells and cantrips it still waxes mightily. That plugged an obvious hole in the ability. As for that potentially throwing off the Challenge, the CR of 5 (or whatever) I can see it going either way. If only one member of an entire group is actually fighting the construct then they will only be doing a fraction of the damage the party could do. If they did, say, a third what the entire party would do then if the sqaarg did more than that third with its lower Might score then the combat would be biased in its favour. If, say it did 2d6 damage with seize, then its damage range is from 7 with Might 0 and 15 with Might 8, or it does about double damage at full power. It it were 1d8 base damage for 4½ the range is 4 to 12 for a threefold increase. One work around I toyed with the idea of was giving the Gray Sqaarg the option to take an Action to apply its own +5 Strength bonus to its Might. That gave me the mental image of the Sqaarg punching itself in its own face to juice itself up, but I suppose it could strike heroic body builder poses instead… It felt a bit silly, but I left a remnant in the example by suggesting other Sqaargs could wrestle their companions to lend them their Strength. [/QUOTE]
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