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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

I think it would still be like that was like a normal fight. The expectation is the characters would still win. But then you have like different kinds of ghouls. The ravenous gruel is a level five brute. But then you have abyssal ghouls, which are level 16 skirmishers. So suddenly you have this giant jump in ghouls.

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

I think it would still be like that was like a normal fight. The expectation is the characters would still win. But then you have like different kinds of ghouls. The ravenous gruel is a level five brute. But then you have abyssal ghouls, which are level 16 skirmishers. So suddenly you have this giant jump in ghouls.

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

And it was strictly so that you had ghouls that were still a threat to characters at different levels. You have abyssal ghoul devourers. Then you get these abyssal ghoul hungerers, which are level 18 minions. So even though they're two levels higher than your abyssal ghoul lurkers and abyssal ghouls, straight abyssal ghouls. They count for one fifth because minions counted roughly one one.

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

And it was strictly so that you had ghouls that were still a threat to characters at different levels. You have abyssal ghoul devourers. Then you get these abyssal ghoul hungerers, which are level 18 minions. So even though they're two levels higher than your abyssal ghoul lurkers and abyssal ghouls, straight abyssal ghouls. They count for one fifth because minions counted roughly one one.

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

And it was strictly so that you had ghouls that were still a threat to characters at different levels. You have abyssal ghoul devourers. Then you get these abyssal ghoul hungerers, which are level 18 minions. So even though they're two levels higher than your abyssal ghoul lurkers and abyssal ghouls, straight abyssal ghouls. They count for one fifth because minions counted roughly one one.

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

Five of those minions would be the equivalent of a single monster. But they still like look at their stats. AC 27 plus 23 to hit 13 damage. They still had all of these higher ones. So the issue is that in order to have monsters that scale across levels like the ghouls, you have to have five different kinds of ghouls.

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

Five of those minions would be the equivalent of a single monster. But they still like look at their stats. AC 27 plus 23 to hit 13 damage. They still had all of these higher ones. So the issue is that in order to have monsters that scale across levels like the ghouls, you have to have five different kinds of ghouls.

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

Five of those minions would be the equivalent of a single monster. But they still like look at their stats. AC 27 plus 23 to hit 13 damage. They still had all of these higher ones. So the issue is that in order to have monsters that scale across levels like the ghouls, you have to have five different kinds of ghouls.

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

right challenge rating and the more linear bounded accuracy of fifth edition means you don't necessarily need to have that many because creatures now can fulfill different roles with the same stat block we will look at my favorite the cult fanatic i think we'll look at a veteran Warrior veteran. So we're going to look at the warrior veteran. The warrior veteran is a, is a CR three.

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

right challenge rating and the more linear bounded accuracy of fifth edition means you don't necessarily need to have that many because creatures now can fulfill different roles with the same stat block we will look at my favorite the cult fanatic i think we'll look at a veteran Warrior veteran. So we're going to look at the warrior veteran. The warrior veteran is a, is a CR three.

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

right challenge rating and the more linear bounded accuracy of fifth edition means you don't necessarily need to have that many because creatures now can fulfill different roles with the same stat block we will look at my favorite the cult fanatic i think we'll look at a veteran Warrior veteran. So we're going to look at the warrior veteran. The warrior veteran is a, is a CR three.

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

I really love CR two and three monsters. And I like them in particular because they can serve so many different roles. A single warrior veteran can be the equivalent of a solo monster against level two and level three characters. If you have like five level two characters or three level three characters, a single veteran is actually a pretty good dangerous threat. Right. It hits hard.

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

I really love CR two and three monsters. And I like them in particular because they can serve so many different roles. A single warrior veteran can be the equivalent of a solo monster against level two and level three characters. If you have like five level two characters or three level three characters, a single veteran is actually a pretty good dangerous threat. Right. It hits hard.

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

I really love CR two and three monsters. And I like them in particular because they can serve so many different roles. A single warrior veteran can be the equivalent of a solo monster against level two and level three characters. If you have like five level two characters or three level three characters, a single veteran is actually a pretty good dangerous threat. Right. It hits hard.

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

It's got the parry attacks. It's got kind of things that can make it stand on its own. So you could actually throw a veteran up against a group of level two characters and it can hold its own against a whole group of level two characters. But also at roughly, it can act as sort of the elite role when the characters are roughly fourth level, right?

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

It's got the parry attacks. It's got kind of things that can make it stand on its own. So you could actually throw a veteran up against a group of level two characters and it can hold its own against a whole group of level two characters. But also at roughly, it can act as sort of the elite role when the characters are roughly fourth level, right?

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

It's got the parry attacks. It's got kind of things that can make it stand on its own. So you could actually throw a veteran up against a group of level two characters and it can hold its own against a whole group of level two characters. But also at roughly, it can act as sort of the elite role when the characters are roughly fourth level, right?

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

Two veterans is actually a pretty good threat against fourth level characters or even fifth level characters. You know, you can have basically one veteran for every two characters at like fourth and fifth level. Then once the characters are like sixth or seventh level, now you can have one veteran per character and it's a really good threat.

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

Two veterans is actually a pretty good threat against fourth level characters or even fifth level characters. You know, you can have basically one veteran for every two characters at like fourth and fifth level. Then once the characters are like sixth or seventh level, now you can have one veteran per character and it's a really good threat.

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

Two veterans is actually a pretty good threat against fourth level characters or even fifth level characters. You know, you can have basically one veteran for every two characters at like fourth and fifth level. Then once the characters are like sixth or seventh level, now you can have one veteran per character and it's a really good threat.