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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 2259148" data-attributes="member: 94">Arrrgh! Had a huge reply written and lost it. You may now find my answers more brief.Most likely, no effect-- unless they are very well equipped:A PC's gear is worth 0.2 CR per character level.An NPC's gear is worth 0.125 CR per character level.The value amounts for "Wealth by Level" are available in the DMG.EDIT: I actually used this function to set some of the CR/EL/BR ratings of the units that are available to the PCs in Slavelords of Cydonia. It's a simple thing to knock .2 CR off a unit if they are under-equipped, or add .2 CR if they are well-equipped, and then recalculate the Battle Rating. Obviously, it has a greater effect on low-CR combatants than high-CR combatants (ie, relative to what percentage of the total CR is represented by 0.2 CR).EDIT: Of course, if you had a 10th level character stripped naked and forced to fight, that 0.2 CR per character level would knock a full 2 CR off his total.EDIT: But as a general rule, if your "conscripts" have leather armor and a club, and your "elite footmen" have a chain shirt and a longsword, it's not going to make a difference.Unit size should be set to the same size as the smallest unit involved in the battle (generally speaking).This was one of the longer answers I lost. I will sum up: If you want to do it, you're on your own. A good deal of mathematical R&D went into the rules that I wrote, which assume that most folks will use miniatures or counters that are properly scaled to size.No effect. A dwarf's bonus vs. giants is already included in his CR. You should strive to avoid accounting for ANY function of combat that is inherent to the creature, as opposed to being a function of terrain or tactical position.Read the section Battle Actions: Move again. It's all there. To summarize, facing affects movement.Flanking is not accounted for per se, but it is accounted for. I'll refer you back to the first long Q&A post of mine in this thread, page 1.Wulf</blockquote>

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