lichmaster
Hero
I was referring to "Epic". That's what I was referring to as a tag. The table you linked refers to "Epic" monsters, which are unofficial both in o5e and LU.Encounter difficulty is not a monster tag and I never suggested it was. Where are you getting that idea from? "Deadly" is one of the encounter difficulties in the DMG. It is not a monster tag. Is there something you are misunderstand? You keep seeming to think I have applied some "tag" to monsters. I have not.
On this we agree, but we disagree on the final result.I don't think you are understanding the "solution" at all. It has nothing to do with monsters other than selecting the correct one.
I checked it. It seems a very convoluted way to get a TPK (as the link itself declares), but with the pleasure of crunching some numbers first. Using the entire "daily budget" on a single monster does not make for an epic encounter, but a carnage. Still, some people might like it, I guess..Again, it is not a monster tag. I have clarified that several times, but you still seem to ignore it. Epic was 3PP made term to describe an encounter more challenging than "deadly." The author used the daily XP budget from the DMG to develop the table. It uses the RAW numbers from the DMG, just not the DMG encounter builder. It is explained in the link.
It seems pointless to me to use 3PP material based on o5e in a discussion about LU. We really seem not to be talking in the same language, unfortunately.It is not something that can be right or wrong. It uses the DMG XP numbers in a different way, that is all. However, you seem to not understand what I am talking about, so I can't really put a lot of value in your analysis of its accuracy.
That's irrelevant if the monster has a CR so much higher than the PCs. That's the entire point! Is the concept of an "impossible" encounter in LU, and to get that you simply need a monster whose CR is 1.5x the average PC level.Well you never said how many PCs, so that is big red flag.
The threshold doesn't make for an encounter that will be "difficult", but an almost guaranteed TPK.For a solo monster I simply check its CR against the level and number of PCs it is facing.
- f the PCs are at the threshold, I know it will be a difficult battle.
- IF the PCs are below the threshold I know it could be a TPC
- If the PCs are above the threshold I know it is likely not a TPC
I made an example using o5e monsters and this table. According to it, 5 lvl 5 pcs should have an elite ("difficult" in your words) battle against a CR 16 monster. For me, that is a guaranteed TPK.