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<blockquote data-quote="Kerrick" data-source="post: 3886980" data-attributes="member: 4722">I was playing around with some stuff, and I discovered that I was wrong - L10 is supposed to be CR 14, not 11.5.&nbsp; L9 is 11.5... but since L10 spells don't come in until L21, we have to increase the CR by 2.5 to account for the missing level. That is, the average CRs go up by 1.5 at 7th, 8th, and 9th levels; while you're going from L9 to L10 in spell levels, you skip a caster level (19th), so you have to account for it - hence the 2.5. (I tried 3, but it didn't quite work out - the formula for determining CL from the creature's CR is CR * 1.5; if you start at 14 and go up +2/level, it works out perfectly.Unfortunately, it kind of breaks down at extremely high levels - a spell to summon a primal elemental (CR 73) would be 39th level (CL 109) - that's way too high, IMO. The difference probably keeps increasing; I'll crunch some numbers and see what I can find out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kerrick, post: 3886980, member: 4722"] I was playing around with some stuff, and I discovered that I was wrong - L10 is supposed to be CR 14, not 11.5. L9 is 11.5... but since L10 spells don't come in until L21, we have to increase the CR by 2.5 to account for the missing level. That is, the average CRs go up by 1.5 at 7th, 8th, and 9th levels; while you're going from L9 to L10 in spell levels, you skip a caster level (19th), so you have to account for it - hence the 2.5. (I tried 3, but it didn't quite work out - the formula for determining CL from the creature's CR is CR * 1.5; if you start at 14 and go up +2/level, it works out perfectly. Unfortunately, it kind of breaks down at extremely high levels - a spell to summon a primal elemental (CR 73) would be 39th level (CL 109) - that's way too high, IMO. The difference probably keeps increasing; I'll crunch some numbers and see what I can find out. [/QUOTE]

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