(YBA)Laith and Diaochan enter Wicht's Lair

Rathan · Apr 6, 2002

*Laith domonates the last zombie.....*

The chimera powerfully dominates the coast; waves away the edge of the wyrm!

turtle · Apr 6, 2002

While Laith attacks the zombie Diaochan tries to distract it by shouting and drawing its attention!

The chimera speaks facing the badlands; avoids the chaos of the foul!

Wicht · Apr 7, 2002

Laith fells the zombie with a strong blow.

Each fighter recieves 1/2 experience point.

There is nothing of interest on the zombies.

Kalanyr · Apr 7, 2002

(Sorry for the interruption: How were those zombies CR 1 with undead and student of the temple? I thought Undead cost all 5 of a CR 1 creatures allotted XP.)

Wicht · Apr 7, 2002

Kalanyr said:
(Sorry for the interruption: How were those zombies CR 1 with undead and student of the temple? I thought Undead cost all 5 of a CR 1 creatures allotted XP.)

I cheated and allowed them 6 XP (assuming that they had a teacher). I sometimes do this with epic powers as well counting them as only 5. In other words these are epic CR 1 zombies.

Kalanyr · Apr 7, 2002

(Ok, hmm guess I need to redo a few of my monsters armed with this knowledg (unfortunately 2 of the ones it applies to are deceased(Evil Demitri)))

turtle · Apr 7, 2002

all in all the rules have to be a bit fluid... don't you think?

there has to be room for creativity and in the end the person running the thread should do what they want to make what monsters they want. within reason..

Wicht · Apr 7, 2002

Allowing 6 Exp as opposed to 5 exp does not greatly unbalance the monster. In fact allowing them student of the temple is mostly just flavoring and makes them only slightly more dangerous than skeletons.

The monster creation rules are fairly good except for the odd 1 exp worth of loot or power. Generally speaking if there is only an extra exp, I would just keep the CR at the lower level. If you end up 1 or 2 exp or yen short of the next CR, I would just add another modifier or weapon.