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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Roger" data-source="post: 6556857" data-attributes="member: 17420">A bit, but let's consider what we've got here.Grick has damage resistance to nonmagical weapons, which isn't quite as good as twice as many hit points, but it's sort of in that ballpark.  And it has a weaker version of multiattack -- instead of just making two attacks, it has to hit with the first one to get a chance at the second.As you say.Hits harder than the gnoll or grick, but also has lower AC and lower HP than those monsters, so it looks to me to be in the right ballpark.  It's also just a beast, so lots of druid/ranger stuff is a possibility, so yeah, maybe on the harder side of CR2, but maybe not.A lot of things need to go wrong for the hapless character here -- they have to get hit at +5, then fail the Con save, then get hit at +3 with advantage, and then after all that they take 19 (more) damage.  Which isn't a good day, but not every day in the front line is.Well, yeah, but it's also 67 HP that has an AC of 9 and a move of 10'.  So it might eat your blind gibbering buddy, or you might just all stand back and fill it full of arrows and have a good laugh about it later.  No doubt about it -- any day you walk into a gelatinous cube, that's going to be a bad day.  For the poor sap walking point, anyway.  Everyone else can point and laugh from a safe distance.You had your chance to learn Giant Elk so you could explain to them why they shouldn't be stepping on your face.  It's hardly the elks' fault you kept falling asleep during Introduction to Giant Elk Love Poetry class.Yeah, sure, a bit.  It might be useful to have another number to reflect the variability of the monster -- if CR is the average challenge, some way of expressing the standard deviation might be useful to some DMs.  But it might be more hassle than its worth.Cheers,Roger</blockquote>

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