Mike Shea

I get to do whatever I want. You get to do whatever you want. That's what makes this game so awesome. We can do whatever we want. So yeah, so I'm eager. I'm looking forward to seeing it, but I'm not like, oh, we should be seeing stat blocks. No, I don't really care. That's fine. They can do what they want. They did have a conversation about how challenge rating works in 2025.

I get to do whatever I want. You get to do whatever you want. That's what makes this game so awesome. We can do whatever we want. So yeah, so I'm eager. I'm looking forward to seeing it, but I'm not like, oh, we should be seeing stat blocks. No, I don't really care. That's fine. They can do what they want. They did have a conversation about how challenge rating works in 2025.

I get to do whatever I want. You get to do whatever you want. That's what makes this game so awesome. We can do whatever we want. So yeah, so I'm eager. I'm looking forward to seeing it, but I'm not like, oh, we should be seeing stat blocks. No, I don't really care. That's fine. They can do what they want. They did have a conversation about how challenge rating works in 2025.

And I've had some people that are like, ooh, are you going to be changing the forge? This is a question that I actually discussed previously. Are you going to change the forge of foes monsters by challenge rating sheet or the lazy encounter benchmark to account for new 2025 stuff? So far, I haven't seen anything that tells me that I need to for a few reasons, and I've talked about that.

And I've had some people that are like, ooh, are you going to be changing the forge? This is a question that I actually discussed previously. Are you going to change the forge of foes monsters by challenge rating sheet or the lazy encounter benchmark to account for new 2025 stuff? So far, I haven't seen anything that tells me that I need to for a few reasons, and I've talked about that.

And I've had some people that are like, ooh, are you going to be changing the forge? This is a question that I actually discussed previously. Are you going to change the forge of foes monsters by challenge rating sheet or the lazy encounter benchmark to account for new 2025 stuff? So far, I haven't seen anything that tells me that I need to for a few reasons, and I've talked about that.

But until we actually have it in hand, until Paul Hughes has done his crazy PhD thesis about what the math is behind all of the monsters, I don't think we could really say for sure. But it was interesting for them to talk about how challenge rating works in the new one. And they talked about how challenge rating worked in the old one, which I thought was a really good, it's like an explanation.

But until we actually have it in hand, until Paul Hughes has done his crazy PhD thesis about what the math is behind all of the monsters, I don't think we could really say for sure. But it was interesting for them to talk about how challenge rating works in the new one. And they talked about how challenge rating worked in the old one, which I thought was a really good, it's like an explanation.

But until we actually have it in hand, until Paul Hughes has done his crazy PhD thesis about what the math is behind all of the monsters, I don't think we could really say for sure. But it was interesting for them to talk about how challenge rating works in the new one. And they talked about how challenge rating worked in the old one, which I thought was a really good, it's like an explanation.

I kind of wish they had said 10 years ago and they have said it in different places, but I don't think we've ever seen it this clear before, which is in the olden days, in the 2014 monster days and the design of 2014 monsters, uh, The challenge rating of the monster was based on its optimal use.

I kind of wish they had said 10 years ago and they have said it in different places, but I don't think we've ever seen it this clear before, which is in the olden days, in the 2014 monster days and the design of 2014 monsters, uh, The challenge rating of the monster was based on its optimal use.

I kind of wish they had said 10 years ago and they have said it in different places, but I don't think we've ever seen it this clear before, which is in the olden days, in the 2014 monster days and the design of 2014 monsters, uh, The challenge rating of the monster was based on its optimal use.

In other words, when you used its strongest features in exactly the right way, the challenge rating was based on that, which meant if you used it in any other way, the challenge rating would be significantly reduced.

In other words, when you used its strongest features in exactly the right way, the challenge rating was based on that, which meant if you used it in any other way, the challenge rating would be significantly reduced.

In other words, when you used its strongest features in exactly the right way, the challenge rating was based on that, which meant if you used it in any other way, the challenge rating would be significantly reduced.

The example, my friends Sean Merwin and Teo Sabadia talked about this on Mastering Dungeons, and they mentioned it was very kind of them to credit it back to me, where they said that there was a conversation I had with Jeremy Crawford, which I did on a show that I ran a long time ago, where I made fun of the Winter Eladrin that was in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, where it was like a CR 11...

The example, my friends Sean Merwin and Teo Sabadia talked about this on Mastering Dungeons, and they mentioned it was very kind of them to credit it back to me, where they said that there was a conversation I had with Jeremy Crawford, which I did on a show that I ran a long time ago, where I made fun of the Winter Eladrin that was in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, where it was like a CR 11...

The example, my friends Sean Merwin and Teo Sabadia talked about this on Mastering Dungeons, and they mentioned it was very kind of them to credit it back to me, where they said that there was a conversation I had with Jeremy Crawford, which I did on a show that I ran a long time ago, where I made fun of the Winter Eladrin that was in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, where it was like a CR 11...

winter eladrin so this like you know kind of cold winter eladrin that did four damage with its bow it had like a single bow attack and the because its dex was terrible it was a low to hit and it did four damage it was like a d6 it's like a d6 plus one And I was like, this is a CR-11 monster. He should be doing cones of cold every time he fires that bow. Why is it that?

winter eladrin so this like you know kind of cold winter eladrin that did four damage with its bow it had like a single bow attack and the because its dex was terrible it was a low to hit and it did four damage it was like a d6 it's like a d6 plus one And I was like, this is a CR-11 monster. He should be doing cones of cold every time he fires that bow. Why is it that?