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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davin" data-source="post: 1380834" data-attributes="member: 1183">Agreed!I just finished coding this all up in my favorite (super-concise) language, so I thought I'd annoy everyone with a few statistics on it...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />(The code includes descriptive variable names that are longer than necessary, and alternate processing code-paths for three configurable options.)6 lines of code total (219 characters), max line length = 53, avg line length = 36.5(broken down into: )1 line for the primary formula calculation (no tables at all, only 3 numeric constants [300, 1.5, & 1.333] for the computation)3 lines of hard-coded edge-limitations (optionally applied): PL<3, CR=1, range<81 line of special handling for fractional-CR monsters1 line to (optionally) adjust to match "incorrect" patterns in DMG table(Does that sound annoying enough?) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Yes, it handles everything in the 3.5 DMG + 3.0 ELH, with a spot-on match for everything (except the typo previously noted @ 5550).  It handles the Level < 3 exceptions and the CR = 1 exceptions, plus divides as appropriate for CR < 1.  The exceptions can be turned off, as can the 7-level-difference-limit, and it computes it either as a DMG match or with the single-formula correction.  There are no upper limits on Level or CR.What else?  Oh, yeah ... if you really wanted to I think you could jam the whole thing into a single, LONG, Excel formula that can be used anywhere (or everywhere) you need it.</blockquote>

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