D&D 5E Advancing Monsters; still confusing

[ccs]

This is all waaay overthinking it. Your the DM. You want the boar to be AC.13 but otherwise stay the same as it is? Wave your hand & make it so.

 

[DEFCON 1]

This is all waaay overthinking it. Your the DM. You want the boar to be AC.13 but otherwise stay the same as it is? Wave your hand & make it so.

Exactly. And don't even bother trying to calculate its Challenge Rating, because the CR does not matter. CR only matters if you are going to attempt to build an entire adventuring day's worth of encounters before the party is able to take any rests... and want to know if your players have a fighting chance, especially in those later encounters in the day.

I mean you're designing this combat encounter for your two kids' first time playing. You KNOW you're not going to allow them to get curbstomped in their first fight regardless of whatever CRs you throw at them or the difficulty of the encounter itself. So build the fight so it's cool, but don't waste your time trying to make it "right" per the "rules" by the DMG. You do what's "right" for your kids and their learning and hopeful eventual love of the game.

 

[Erdric Dragin]

This is all waaay overthinking it. Your the DM. You want the boar to be AC.13 but otherwise stay the same as it is? Wave your hand & make it so.

I want to increase its stats in a way to make it go from 1/4 to 1/2 CR is what I'm trying to do.

 

[Erdric Dragin]

Exactly. And don't even bother trying to calculate its Challenge Rating, because the CR does not matter. CR only matters if you are going to attempt to build an entire adventuring day's worth of encounters before the party is able to take any rests... and want to know if your players have a fighting chance, especially in those later encounters in the day.

I mean you're designing this combat encounter for your two kids' first time playing. You KNOW you're not going to allow them to get curbstomped in their first fight regardless of whatever CRs you throw at them or the difficulty of the encounter itself. So build the fight so it's cool, but don't waste your time trying to make it "right" per the "rules" by the DMG. You do what's "right" for your kids and their learning and hopeful eventual love of the game.

No, but I want the boar to provide more than 50 XP, in fact it's a custom boar called a "Bone Boar" where bony protrusions make it tougher to harm (hence the higher AC) and I want the boar to provide 100 XP for a CR 1/2, just not sure if the AC bump is enough to warrant the CR increase.

 

[dave2008]

I want to increase its stats in a way to make it go from 1/4 to 1/2 CR is what I'm trying to do.

OK, I think everyone misunderstood what you wanted. That is fairly easy. Increase its HP and damage. I would suggest double the HP and damage (two attacks per round). That should do it

 

[dave2008]

No, but I want the boar to provide more than 50 XP, in fact it's a custom boar called a "Bone Boar" where bony protrusions make it tougher to harm (hence the higher AC) and I want the boar to provide 100 XP for a CR 1/2, just not sure if the AC bump is enough to warrant the CR increase.

It is not. You need to increase the HP and damage.

 

[NotAYakk]

Oh, you want a CR 1/2 Bone Boar! No problem.

AC 13 (+2) (2 points)
Resist Piercing, Fire, Cold, and Slashing (+50% HP, worth 5.5 HP, or 0.7 points)
(Note: not bludgeoning)
Multiattack The bone boar makes two Tusk attacks. Only apply Charge to the first one that hits. (1.5 points)
That is about 4 points, or enough to move up the CR table by 1 notch.

 

[robus]

I’ll refer you to Giffyglyph’s monster maker so much easier to dial up a monster with the stats you need, add the fluff of some description and you’re good to go.

 

[J-H]

This link is simpler:

5e monster manual on a business card

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