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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 4039280" data-attributes="member: 27051"><p>There is no explicit guidance, no, and this is yet again a failing of presentation. But there is plenty of <em>implicit</em> guidance. Where monsters are concerned, there are 5 Monster Manuals (plus numerous other WotC and 3rd-party books) that give examples of what sort of stats a monster of a given CR could have. With these examples it is no big deal to eyeball your own. Who cares if the maths is off? The play's the thing in the final analysis. When we were putting together Dark Sun 3e, one of the unwritten rules we used was that the best way to do new good design is to look at old good design. The same applies to DMing: steal from those who went before you and don't sweat the details.</p><p></p><p></p><p>It can, yes. But I found that a sound knowledge of the PCs in your game was a great supplement (or even replacement) for the CR system. I have run plenty of battles stretching over several (well into double figures) rounds, with up to 30 opponents for the PCs, without the game slowing down or being a static slugfest. To firmly don my geek-hat and paraphrase Spock: the CR system is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark Hope, post: 4039280, member: 27051"] There is no explicit guidance, no, and this is yet again a failing of presentation. But there is plenty of [I]implicit[/I] guidance. Where monsters are concerned, there are 5 Monster Manuals (plus numerous other WotC and 3rd-party books) that give examples of what sort of stats a monster of a given CR could have. With these examples it is no big deal to eyeball your own. Who cares if the maths is off? The play's the thing in the final analysis. When we were putting together Dark Sun 3e, one of the unwritten rules we used was that the best way to do new good design is to look at old good design. The same applies to DMing: steal from those who went before you and don't sweat the details. It can, yes. But I found that a sound knowledge of the PCs in your game was a great supplement (or even replacement) for the CR system. I have run plenty of battles stretching over several (well into double figures) rounds, with up to 30 opponents for the PCs, without the game slowing down or being a static slugfest. To firmly don my geek-hat and paraphrase Spock: the CR system is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. ;) [/QUOTE]
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