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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6318594" data-attributes="member: 6775031">You have it backwards. A harpy doesn't have 31 hit points because it's CR 4; a harpy is CR 4 because it has 31 hit points. The game stats (hit points, strength score, maneuverability, etc) all have explicit in-game meaning, and the meta-game stats like CR are only descriptive of.Is it inconsistent for a harpy to have more hit points than an ogre? Not necessarily, because hit points have a lot of factors to them. It wouldn't even be inconsistent if harpies had higher strength than ogres, because chimps are stronger than humans in spite of being smaller - there are a lot of reasons for why something might be strong or weak, even though strength itself is fairly well defined. It's just saying, that whatever this these stats mean - whatever the reality within the game world that is being reflected with these stats - they are consistent.What you seem to be confusing for inconsistency is actually just verisimilitude. There are tons of things within the game world, even discounting the elves and dragons and whatnot, that don't follow the laws of reality. They don't follow the complicated laws of our reality, or the story logic from any particular novels. But they don't have to be. Adherence to outside sources is not a requirement for internal consistency.</blockquote>