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<blockquote data-quote="tomedunn" data-source="post: 9502127" data-attributes="member: 7040979">On the monster side of things, I've <a href="https://tomedunn.github.io/the-finished-book/monsters/calculating-monster-cr/" target="_blank">calculated CRs</a> for some 2,000 published monsters using the method outlined in the 2014 DMG and generally they match the listed values in each stat block. There are obviously outliers, but on average they're close.[ATTACH=full]385288[/ATTACH]When they republished monsters from Volo's and Tome of Foes in Monsters of the Multiverse I did a <a href="https://tomedunn.github.io/the-finished-book/monsters/monsters-of-the-multiverse/" target="_blank">comparison between the new and old versions</a> and, for the monsters that changed, they generally became more consistent with the 2014 DMG monster making rules.Now, there are some differences between the baseline stats for monsters presented in the 2014 DMG and published monsters (I have a <a href="https://tomedunn.github.io/the-finished-book/monsters/baseline-monster-stats/" target="_blank">full breakdown here</a>) but, overall, whatever method they're using internally appears to be largely consistent with the 2014 DMG.In terms of encounter building, I generally calculate the difficulty for encounter in the adventures I've run, and those have practically always fallen in the difficulty ranges outlined in the 2014 encounter building rules. Unfortunately, that only covers a handful of published adventure modules. I would have loved to analyze the topic more broadly but, sadly, my time for doing so is often very limited.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tomedunn, post: 9502127, member: 7040979"] On the monster side of things, I've [URL='https://tomedunn.github.io/the-finished-book/monsters/calculating-monster-cr/']calculated CRs[/URL] for some 2,000 published monsters using the method outlined in the 2014 DMG and generally they match the listed values in each stat block. There are obviously outliers, but on average they're close. [ATTACH type="full" width="523px"]385288[/ATTACH] When they republished monsters from [I]Volo'[/I]s and [I]Tome of Foes[/I] in [I]Monsters of the Multiverse[/I] I did a [URL='https://tomedunn.github.io/the-finished-book/monsters/monsters-of-the-multiverse/']comparison between the new and old versions[/URL] and, for the monsters that changed, they generally became more consistent with the 2014 DMG monster making rules. Now, there are some differences between the baseline stats for monsters presented in the 2014 DMG and published monsters (I have a [URL='https://tomedunn.github.io/the-finished-book/monsters/baseline-monster-stats/']full breakdown here[/URL]) but, overall, whatever method they're using internally appears to be largely consistent with the 2014 DMG. In terms of encounter building, I generally calculate the difficulty for encounter in the adventures I've run, and those have practically always fallen in the difficulty ranges outlined in the 2014 encounter building rules. Unfortunately, that only covers a handful of published adventure modules. I would have loved to analyze the topic more broadly but, sadly, my time for doing so is often very limited. [/QUOTE]

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