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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hella_Tellah" data-source="post: 4609831" data-attributes="member: 52669">The stats-by-level page in 4e--can't remember if it's in the DMG or MM--looked really familiar to me.  I took one look and said, "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgAPFKDL6Sg" target="_blank">Get out mah head</a>!"The number one thing that lets me "wing it" in any combat-oriented game is my little GM cheat sheet.  I make a generic stat block, then adjust to taste based on the situation.  Usually I do it by taking an average of the PCs' stats, then setting up Gaius Genericus Maximus (as I lovingly label him) so the PCs can hit him about 70% of the time, he hits them 50% of the time, he dies in 1 hit per PC (on average), and he can kill a PC in two hits (or so).  Slap on a special ability or two, and he's good to go!  When there are multiple baddies on-screen, I divide Genericus' hit points between them.Challenge Ratings and Monster Levels in 3e/4e do that for you, sort of, but it's really good for games like Victoriana, which doesn't have preset guidelines.  For the WFRP session I did yesterday, I just used the stat blocks in the book and let the chips fall where they may, but players sort of expect awful things to happen in Warhammer. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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