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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cheiromancer" data-source="post: 3110589" data-attributes="member: 141">I think the old Yx was CR 30.  The new Yx is, as far as I can see, a stronger version of Yx; maybe CR 40 or so. This is just my own impression; really someone else should weigh in.  The DR is lower, but the AC is higher; if someone uses Power Attack to overcome DR the two changes cancel each other out almost exactly (assuming -1 BAB = +2 damage).  Several of her stats are higher. Her SR is higher.  Lots more hit points.  Yeah, she is definitely tougher.At least at these levels one can be confident that means of avoiding grapples and powerful fear effects will be present; not something that could be presumed at level 20, at least in Midnight.  She can still escape very well, but there's a chance that someone could use wall spells to block her escape and kill her. The death effect is still very nasty, and even if it is appropriate to Midnight it will increase the CR.I think you are still looking at her as a boss monster, not one of four encounters that the party is going to deal with that day before deciding to rest.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The difference between HD and SR is still pretty far out; +21 difference.  Which is better than the +34 difference, and maybe is OK.  Anyway, don't power her up any more.  And maybe get a second opinion on the CR thing.</blockquote>

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