Thought about the mountain giant

[the Jester]

Hmm... it occurs to me that part of the reason for the mt. giant's high CR could be the potential implications of a 3e conversion of Return to the Tomb of Horrors. After all, a number of the monsters in it are in the ELH (not to mention stuff in the Psionics HB, sort of, as well as T&B).

Anyone else notice this? It seems like a RttToH campaign would be set to start around 25th-26th level...

 

[Crothian]

But that still doesn't help that a party of that level should annihaliate a mountain giant. The +10 will save alone makes it almost no challenge. IT would be easy at 26th level to cast a will save spell that will end the battle with a DC of 30+. Now, if you're in melee with it, it might be a challenge. But there's no reason for that to happen for a party of this level.

 

[the Jester]

Oh, I agree that the CR is overblown; I just meant that maybe that's why they wanted it to have a CR in that range (even though they didn't make it imho).