LexStarwalker
First Post
No worries! I'll bring these other points up in future episodes.
In summary:
We are given information on the effect of legendary resistance on CR. You can figure out the impact of some of the legendary and lair actions based on the increase in damage output and similarity to abilities in the Monsters Features table, but not all.
The math between the DMG & UA encounter building systems does seem to be "the same" (depending on how you define "same"). However, the single monster UA table builds Hard encounters and the multiple monsters table builds Medium encounters.
The multiple monster table in the UA seems to ignore the effect of the encounter multiplier for having more than one monster against the PCs that is used in the DMG method. This explains the discrepancy in the math, and seems to be an error on Wizards' part. You will often end up with what the DMG would call Deadly encounters using the multiple monsters table in the UA.
In summary:
We are given information on the effect of legendary resistance on CR. You can figure out the impact of some of the legendary and lair actions based on the increase in damage output and similarity to abilities in the Monsters Features table, but not all.
The math between the DMG & UA encounter building systems does seem to be "the same" (depending on how you define "same"). However, the single monster UA table builds Hard encounters and the multiple monsters table builds Medium encounters.
The multiple monster table in the UA seems to ignore the effect of the encounter multiplier for having more than one monster against the PCs that is used in the DMG method. This explains the discrepancy in the math, and seems to be an error on Wizards' part. You will often end up with what the DMG would call Deadly encounters using the multiple monsters table in the UA.
