Upper_Krust
Legend
- Chief Nosnra fights as a frost giant with no immunities. He has AC 17 from splint armor. The chief is seated at the head table.
- Nosnra’s wife, Grutha, is a hill giant. She sits beside the chief.
- The chief’s cave bear (use the cave bear variant with the polar bear statistics) is licking up spills under the head table at Nosnra’s feet.
- The subchief, also seated at the head table, is a hill giant that fights as a stone giant, without Stone Camouflage. His AC is from splint armor.
- A cloud giant ambassador stands near the firepit.
- A stone giant visitor is seated at the head table.
- Seven hill giants, including the sergeant from area 25 (who has AC 16 from chain mail and 115 hit points), six hill giant servants (use the ogre statistics), and eight ogres are scattered around the room.
- This is the party room.
That's very interesting...although I was specifically thinking encounters with more than 3 Fire Giants.
However, from the above: 1 Cloud, 1 Frost, 2 Stone, 8 Hill, 6 Ogres and a Polar Bear. That's 96k XP equivalent...or CR 26 (in my apparently crazy-person logic).
Worth noting:
1. Cloud Giants are weaker than Fire Giants who are themselves a weak CR 9 (albeit Fire Giants seem the monster in the book so far closest to hitting their CR at around 91% effectiveness ). Cloud Giant 85% effective.
2. Frost Giant CR is also overrated by the book, they come out as 83% effective.
3. Stone Giants about 68% effectiveness
4. Hill Giants around 83% effectiveness
5. Ogres at 67%
6. Polar Bear 79%
So everything seems to be punching BELOW its Challenge Rating basics (and that's before taking AC into account which is low on most as well).