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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kabouter Games" data-source="post: 7077241" data-attributes="member: 6788812">Not at all. It seems the original thread went a bit dormant, so maybe the OP won't mind the hijack. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />THIS. Say it louder for the people at the back! This is also very much related to my earlier point about CR - an intelligent, cunning creature of a certain CR will be much less of a challenge if they're played as mindless bags of hit points. A bugbear has a significant advantage if it surprises a foe. With Stealth +6, it should be ambushing the PCs, not heedlessly rushing in to melee. If you can do 12 points of damage, with a good chance for 24, with javelins before the enemy gets a chance to respond, you're much more likely to win. If you do it from 3/4 cover, you make it even less likely you'll suffer any casualties, and give yourself the option of running away to harass with more ambushes. Even better, that's what the flavor text says they like to do.Now, because BadWrongFun is distasteful, I can't say DMs who play bugbears as mindless bags of hit points are failing their obligation. (I save that for my DM's Guild <a href="http://www.dmsguild.com/product/190786/You-Can-Try--Tips-on-becoming-a-better-DM?term=you+can+try&test_epoch=0" target="_blank">monograph on DMing</a>! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ) But they are failing themselves and their players if they maintain bugbears as CR 1. They should be CR 1/2, because then they're just goblins with more hit points and damage potential. They're less of a threat, so they should be less XP to defeat.[ATTACH]83199[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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