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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8073444" data-attributes="member: 57383">Currently I have the opposite &quot;problem&quot;.&nbsp; Too much spare time and little to do due to the Covid lockdown.Updating <a href="http://enworld.org/index.php?posts/7591319/" target="_blank">The Screaming Child Working Draft</a>.Took me a while to make sure I'd accounted for all the feats, but I think I've got everything.&nbsp; I also tweaked the &quot;Rattle&quot; in the attack lines to &quot;rattle mace&quot; to match the &quot;rattle ball&quot; of the ranged application.Thing is, a vanilla 9th level spellcaster is supposed to be CR 9 and our overly loud infant is basically a 9th level caster with a spell-boosting special abilities AND is also a fighter.So I'd lean towards Challenge Rating 10.&nbsp; The Couatl is a 9th-level spellcaster plus having some meaty combat abilities and its CR 10, although it's too different a creature to be a solid basis of comparison.Oh, the SRD Ogre Mage is pretty horrible to figure out what CR is appropriate.&nbsp; If run deviously (i.e. by cheesing its invisibility, darkness, flight and regeneration abilities) it can whittle away opponents with hit-and-fade attacks and could be frustratingly lethal to low-ish level parties, especially if they don't have see invisibility. But then that's a tactic that most smart regenerating monsters should use but often don't if the DM thinks it's anti-fun for the party.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 8073444, member: 57383"] Currently I have the opposite "problem". Too much spare time and little to do due to the Covid lockdown. Updating [B][URL='http://enworld.org/index.php?posts/7591319/']The Screaming Child Working Draft[/URL][/B]. Took me a while to make sure I'd accounted for all the feats, but I think I've got everything. I also tweaked the "[I]Rattle[/I]" in the attack lines to "rattle mace" to match the "rattle ball" of the ranged application. Thing is, a vanilla 9th level spellcaster is supposed to be CR 9 and our overly loud infant is basically a 9th level caster with a spell-boosting special abilities AND is also a fighter. So I'd lean towards Challenge Rating 10. The Couatl is a 9th-level spellcaster plus having some meaty combat abilities and its CR 10, although it's too different a creature to be a solid basis of comparison. Oh, the SRD Ogre Mage is pretty horrible to figure out what CR is appropriate. If run deviously (i.e. by cheesing its invisibility, darkness, flight and regeneration abilities) it can whittle away opponents with hit-and-fade attacks and could be frustratingly lethal to low-ish level parties, especially if they don't have [I]see invisibility[/I]. But then that's a tactic that most smart regenerating monsters should use but often don't if the DM thinks it's anti-fun for the party. [/QUOTE]

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