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<blockquote data-quote="Spatula" data-source="post: 4689636" data-attributes="member: 2198"><p>I think you're reading a bit much into Celebrim's comments. He's simply pointing out how PCs outstripped the monsters in 1e and throws out the possibility of extra crit damage for monsters (already mentioned by PS) as one potential issue of difference.</p><p></p><p>The low damage of monsters is something that I've noticed before. I recall that the MM errata boosts the damage output for a bunch of creatures, but I don't remember exactly which ones. But also if you look at the table of monster damage output by level in the DMG, many if not most of the creatures in the MM fall well short of the suggested low end damage for their level. And there's nothing in the DMG or MM to explain this discrepency. In theory an attack that just did damage would be around the high end, damage + minor rider would be around the middle range, and damage + strong rider would be at the low end... or apparently not, but we aren't clued into the details of the monster design process.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spatula, post: 4689636, member: 2198"] I think you're reading a bit much into Celebrim's comments. He's simply pointing out how PCs outstripped the monsters in 1e and throws out the possibility of extra crit damage for monsters (already mentioned by PS) as one potential issue of difference. The low damage of monsters is something that I've noticed before. I recall that the MM errata boosts the damage output for a bunch of creatures, but I don't remember exactly which ones. But also if you look at the table of monster damage output by level in the DMG, many if not most of the creatures in the MM fall well short of the suggested low end damage for their level. And there's nothing in the DMG or MM to explain this discrepency. In theory an attack that just did damage would be around the high end, damage + minor rider would be around the middle range, and damage + strong rider would be at the low end... or apparently not, but we aren't clued into the details of the monster design process. [/QUOTE]
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