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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tormyr" data-source="post: 6479593" data-attributes="member: 6776887">The DMG says to use the biggest, baddest, most efficient damage dealing that your monster can do for 3 rounds and average them.  Sneak Attack: If Snigrot will be attacking with an ally, figure this into the damage calculation every round. Otherwise, calculate it in only the first round (from stealth/surprise).Cunning Action: Does not affect HP, AC, DPR, AB or Save DC, so it does not affect CR.Assassinate: If it is likely that Snigrot will be able to surprise someone, calculate the additional damage into the first round only.Poisoned Dagger: Figure it into every round.So if Snigrot did 1d6 piercing plus 1d6 poison per round and gets an extra 1d6 from sneak attack and has a dex mod of 3, it would look like this:Round 1: 24 damage. Assassinate deals automatic critical hit. 2d6 +3 piercing +2d6 sneak attack and 2d6 poison.Round 2: 13 damage. 1d6 +3 piercing, 1d6 sneak, 1d6 poisonRound 3: 13 damage. 1d6 +3 piercing, 1d6 sneak, 1d6 poisonAverage is 50 / 3 = 16.  So 16 would be the effective DPR used in the CR calculation. That puts Snigrot in the Offensive CR 2 category, but his attack bonus is 5 instead of the expected 3, so his Offensive CR is increased to 3.  Then you just need a Defensive CR of 3 to have an average CR of 3 at the end.  If he has studded leather (which is AC 12 + dex I think), that would make his AC 15.  If you give him about 91 hp, that would put him in CR 2 territory, and the AC 15 being 2 higher than the expected AC of 13 would bump him to a Defensive CR of 3.So HP 91AC 15DPR 16AB 5gives you a CR3 Snigrot Dogroot.  Of course, there are several things that could be added that would modify the effective HP, AC, DPR, and AB, but it is a start.</blockquote>

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