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<blockquote data-quote="TheDungeonMathster" data-source="post: 9599761" data-attributes="member: 7043203">Question #1: Elite vs LegendaryI have always had a hard time understanding the fundamental difference between Legendary and Elite creatures, so I need someone to help me.Legendary creatures, from my understanding, are built to mechanically allow the creature enough actions to compete (action economy-wise) with the PCs. Being Legendary does not increase per round damage output nor does it necessarily make the creature more powerful. It just divides their &quot;per round&quot; damage output among more actions.Elite creatures, on the other hand, are powered up versions of creatures. They become a sack of HP and huge damage dealers. But this does not affect anything else (AC, DC, abilities). Thus, creating an Elite CR 10 creature, while counting as two CR 10 creatures, is not the same as a single CR 20 creature.Which to use and when?Question #2: AoE Abilities and DPRIn the Monstrous Menagerie, a damage adjustment for AoE effects is only necessary if the AoE attack can occur every round. However, if I have a dragon, with a recharge fire breath that is a 120 foot cone and does 35 (10d6) Fire (essentially being able to do damage to 4 PCs), then, as far as I can tell from the monster design section, this damage only counts as 35... not four times this. Why is this correct?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheDungeonMathster, post: 9599761, member: 7043203"] [B]Question #1: Elite vs Legendary[/B] I have always had a hard time understanding the fundamental difference between Legendary and Elite creatures, so I need someone to help me. Legendary creatures, from my understanding, are built to mechanically allow the creature enough actions to compete (action economy-wise) with the PCs. Being Legendary does not increase per round damage output nor does it necessarily make the creature more powerful. It just divides their "per round" damage output among more actions. Elite creatures, on the other hand, are powered up versions of creatures. They become a sack of HP and huge damage dealers. But this does not affect anything else (AC, DC, abilities). Thus, creating an Elite CR 10 creature, while counting as two CR 10 creatures, is not the same as a single CR 20 creature. Which to use and when? [B]Question #2: AoE Abilities and DPR[/B] In the Monstrous Menagerie, a damage adjustment for AoE effects is only necessary if the AoE attack can occur every round. However, if I have a dragon, with a recharge fire breath that is a 120 foot cone and does 35 (10d6) Fire (essentially being able to do damage to 4 PCs), then, as far as I can tell from the monster design section, this damage only counts as 35... not four times this. Why is this correct? [/QUOTE]

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