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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AtomicPope" data-source="post: 6773825" data-attributes="member: 64790">Bounded Accuracy is the best thing to happen to DnD since Advantage/Disadvantage.  It lets DMs and Players face a threatening theme of monsters from level 1 to level 20.  My group has faced Hobgoblins and Carrion Crawlers at level 1 and level 15.  We're decked out in magic items.  There's literally no way to do this with stock monsters in 3e.  We're now level 17 and we've faced Imps, Bearded Devils, and Bone Devils in a recent encounter.  Again, there's no way to do this in 3e and make them a viable threat.  They simply couldn't hit a 3e or 4e character who is 12+ levels higher than their CR.Bounded Accuracy makes it possible to face a dozen Zombies at high levels and they're still a threat.  Sure they'll die quickly but you don't want to be surrounded by them.  In a recent game our plate wearing Fighter/Paladin was surrounded by Devils. Even though they needed 17's to hit him the Imps would use the Help Action as a Readied Action lowering the number to about 12+ equivalent to hit.  They started landing some shots and stinging our Pally.  The Help Action in 3e is just about useless.  They'd still need a nat '20' to hit a character in magic full plate with a magic shield.  Not to mention, characters had juiced up stats so their hit points were so high it didn't matter anyway.  That's another big difference.  My 17th level Warlock has 136 hit points.  The number of low level monsters to pad out an encounter is around 3 or 4.  With Bounded Accuracy making it possible to land hits the damage will add up rather quickly.  As a result, I still use my Misty Escape to avoid being surrounded because I can't afford to find out what the dice are going to say.</blockquote>

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