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Mike Shea

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The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

People that, the backers, the patrons of Sly Flourish who have seen the City of Arches grow over the past almost three years. It's been really exciting to hear them and their adventures that they have. My friend Sharon, who ran an organized play program where they ran a bunch of stuff in the city of Arches.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

So this world has now been alive for a while now, and it's really great to see it come together. And I can't wait till I've got a hardcover physical version of this book in my hand. But I also think that being able to deliver both the physical version and all of these digital versions mean a lot to me. So that's the City of Arches. Current update on the City of Arches.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

So this world has now been alive for a while now, and it's really great to see it come together. And I can't wait till I've got a hardcover physical version of this book in my hand. But I also think that being able to deliver both the physical version and all of these digital versions mean a lot to me. So that's the City of Arches. Current update on the City of Arches.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

So this world has now been alive for a while now, and it's really great to see it come together. And I can't wait till I've got a hardcover physical version of this book in my hand. But I also think that being able to deliver both the physical version and all of these digital versions mean a lot to me. So that's the City of Arches. Current update on the City of Arches.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

Paul Hughes updated his Monster Manual 2024 in a business card. He found a little error in his Excel spreadsheet, which happens from time to time. And good on Paul. He updated it. And he's got a new sort of the new math of what he says is the benchmark. for monsters.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

Paul Hughes updated his Monster Manual 2024 in a business card. He found a little error in his Excel spreadsheet, which happens from time to time. And good on Paul. He updated it. And he's got a new sort of the new math of what he says is the benchmark. for monsters.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

Paul Hughes updated his Monster Manual 2024 in a business card. He found a little error in his Excel spreadsheet, which happens from time to time. And good on Paul. He updated it. And he's got a new sort of the new math of what he says is the benchmark. for monsters.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

Like if you notice, many people have, that the D&D 2024 books do not include a monster stat by challenge rating list like the D&D 2014 Dungeon Masters guy did. So Paul said, well, I'm going to make one. Not only did he, he also released All of this under Creative Commons attribution license, which means that you can use this in published works.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

Like if you notice, many people have, that the D&D 2024 books do not include a monster stat by challenge rating list like the D&D 2014 Dungeon Masters guy did. So Paul said, well, I'm going to make one. Not only did he, he also released All of this under Creative Commons attribution license, which means that you can use this in published works.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

Like if you notice, many people have, that the D&D 2024 books do not include a monster stat by challenge rating list like the D&D 2014 Dungeon Masters guy did. So Paul said, well, I'm going to make one. Not only did he, he also released All of this under Creative Commons attribution license, which means that you can use this in published works.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

All you have to do is attribute it as a Creative Commons license to Paul Hughes, which is great. So he now has released this updated list of monster stats by challenge rating. So you can pick a challenge rating 10. You know what their AC is. You know what hit points they might have. You know how many attacks they have or their attack bonus damage and so on. And you can you can fill that out.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

All you have to do is attribute it as a Creative Commons license to Paul Hughes, which is great. So he now has released this updated list of monster stats by challenge rating. So you can pick a challenge rating 10. You know what their AC is. You know what hit points they might have. You know how many attacks they have or their attack bonus damage and so on. And you can you can fill that out.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

All you have to do is attribute it as a Creative Commons license to Paul Hughes, which is great. So he now has released this updated list of monster stats by challenge rating. So you can pick a challenge rating 10. You know what their AC is. You know what hit points they might have. You know how many attacks they have or their attack bonus damage and so on. And you can you can fill that out.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

So really cool analysis that he did. Paul's analysis on monster math is always something I'm very excited about. One thing that he learned, and there was the other update, I forget who wrote the other one, is that legendary monsters, their damage is starting to scale up much higher.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

So really cool analysis that he did. Paul's analysis on monster math is always something I'm very excited about. One thing that he learned, and there was the other update, I forget who wrote the other one, is that legendary monsters, their damage is starting to scale up much higher.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

So really cool analysis that he did. Paul's analysis on monster math is always something I'm very excited about. One thing that he learned, and there was the other update, I forget who wrote the other one, is that legendary monsters, their damage is starting to scale up much higher.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

Some folks in our Sly Flourish Discord server noticed that that mostly seems to be that the math still follows the math of the original D&D 2014 Dungeon Master's Guide monster building rules. Only legendary resistances no longer affects the challenge rating of the monster.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

Some folks in our Sly Flourish Discord server noticed that that mostly seems to be that the math still follows the math of the original D&D 2014 Dungeon Master's Guide monster building rules. Only legendary resistances no longer affects the challenge rating of the monster.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

Some folks in our Sly Flourish Discord server noticed that that mostly seems to be that the math still follows the math of the original D&D 2014 Dungeon Master's Guide monster building rules. Only legendary resistances no longer affects the challenge rating of the monster.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

In other words, if a monster has legendary resistance, it doesn't increase their challenge rating by those resistances, which means those monsters typically can do more damage at their challenge rating, which is why you've seen Tom Dunn was the one who did the... Thank you, Scipio.