Grim Tales Insanity and CR

[DwelleroftheDeep]

I recently purchased Grim Tales and am very happy with it as a whole, however, I was curious as to whether or not there was a way to say, have a paranoid ogre and take it's mental deficiencies into account in it's CR.

It seems to me that it might not be too hard to assign the values myself but I'm a little lazy at the moment and was also wondering if there was anything official or in the book about this.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Hmm. Well, since the effects of all the insanities are expressed in d20 terms-- bonuses and penalties to skill checks and so on-- you could flip to the Creature Creation chapter and assign them a value.

I'd give you solid answers if I had my GT book at hand but, unfortunately, I do not.

But I believe it would have a negligible impact on CR. That may be the most facile answer, and save you quite a bit of work.

 

[takyris]

Wouldn't that just be giving the creature a specific weakness in the Creature Creation area? Any kind of distraction (like the PCs making noises to spook him beforehand) causes him to have to make a Will save to avoid becoming Shaken?

That's the quick & dirty way, anyway.

 

[DwelleroftheDeep]

Thanks, I'll think about it some more and give it a few test runs myself probably.