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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7308912" data-attributes="member: 1465">I am sorry to be blunt, but I think you're a little bit wasting your time. Unless of course you're doing this mostly for fun, in which case it's never wasted <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The reasons why I say this, is that most of your premises are not that strong:1) True that in general CR is variable, but beasts are almost always void of special abilities, all their "specials" are really just damage boosts or minor defensive abilities. This makes CR a lot less variable for beasts than any other creature. In addition, the problem only applies to Moon Druids because others are not supposed to use wildshape in combat efficiently, but Moon Druids can just pick a beast with as high CR as allowed. Differences between beasts of same CR are very slim and typically boil down to choosing a minor tactic (check for example Tiger vs Dire Wolf vs Brown Bear). There is no power creep.2) The changes are indeed dramatic but it's not true that it requires record keeping, exactly because the changes are almost complete. You don't recalculate anything, you just pick up the animal stats and use all of them, except the mental stats (reality check: you are rarely going to need to worry about your mental stats while in wildshape, the only fairly common occurrence is Wisdom saves vs spells). You do need to keep an eye on PC skills/save proficiencies since they apply in wildshape.3) Depends what you mean "potential", because if you start calculating what is your "optimal" choice of beast, you'll definitely spend a lot of time, because they are all very close. But that actually means this optimization is irrelevant to all but the most picky of players. This is not a problem of the game, it's a problem with the player.4) If you always use the highest CR possible, you have 6-7 land beasts to choose from until you hit level 9, after which point you only have 1-2 land beasts to choose from of max CR. Underwater beasts are always 1-2 to choose from (rarely needed anyway). Flying beasts are always max CR1 and only 2 of them. The main burden is at levels 6-8, but again if you just pick one of them you are hardly ever making a "bad choice" because they are quite close to each other with few exceptions.I think the main problem in your house rules is that they go against purposes 1-2-4, because they actually force me to do calculations which I never do with the core rules, with which I just switch the whole stat block and just keep an eye on mental score and proficiencies. Really, in our home game my 8-year-older is playing a Moon Druid and has no problems handling it!</blockquote>

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