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<blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 2001152" data-attributes="member: 957">This is my personal favorite use of this tool.I don't get hung up looking for the &quot;correct CR&quot; monster I want to use.Instead, I find a monster that fits the style I'm looking for and then tweak it to a CR I need.&nbsp; Obviously it has to be fairly close to keep the nature of the selected creature.&nbsp; But you can do a pretty good bit with it.As far as WotC CRs, I honestly think that MM CRs are pretty good, with the exceptions Wulf noted above.&nbsp; Other products are more finger in the air, some are good and some are pretty much NOT.&nbsp; There is something to be said for subjective assessment of CR as an art.&nbsp; But a fixed and reproducable system that is going to give you consistent, reliable and demonstrated accurate results is worth having.It also answers some special case type questions.&nbsp; For example, what is fire immuntiy worth to a troll?&nbsp; Nothing in the WotC stuff gives a solid answer to that.&nbsp; It just GM judgement.&nbsp; Which is fine.But, in the CR Calc you can take a troll, add fire immunity AND change the regen from two vulnerabilities to one and you have a &quot;true&quot; answer.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BryonD, post: 2001152, member: 957"] This is my personal favorite use of this tool. I don't get hung up looking for the "correct CR" monster I want to use. Instead, I find a monster that fits the style I'm looking for and then tweak it to a CR I need. Obviously it has to be fairly close to keep the nature of the selected creature. But you can do a pretty good bit with it. As far as WotC CRs, I honestly think that MM CRs are pretty good, with the exceptions Wulf noted above. Other products are more finger in the air, some are good and some are pretty much NOT. There is something to be said for subjective assessment of CR as an art. But a fixed and reproducable system that is going to give you consistent, reliable and demonstrated accurate results is worth having. It also answers some special case type questions. For example, what is fire immuntiy worth to a troll? Nothing in the WotC stuff gives a solid answer to that. It just GM judgement. Which is fine. But, in the CR Calc you can take a troll, add fire immunity AND change the regen from two vulnerabilities to one and you have a "true" answer. [/QUOTE]

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