Mike Shea

It's also a CR two, but it has like the radiant flame attack where it can do two, you know, plus five to hit at range attack of 60 feet and does 11 damage. So it does a lot of damage. It's a dangerous creature because it does this, you know, up to 22 radiant damage at CR two, but it's easier to run and you could run a lot of these, right? Because they're just doing multiple attacks.

You don't, you could ignore everything else it does. You don't have to worry about divine aid. You don't have to worry about spirit guardians or any other stuff that it does. You just say he either hits you with a mace for 11 points or he hits you with radiant flame for 11 points and he can do two of those. So I think the priest is actually a better cult fanatic than the cult fanatic is now.

You don't, you could ignore everything else it does. You don't have to worry about divine aid. You don't have to worry about spirit guardians or any other stuff that it does. You just say he either hits you with a mace for 11 points or he hits you with radiant flame for 11 points and he can do two of those. So I think the priest is actually a better cult fanatic than the cult fanatic is now.

You don't, you could ignore everything else it does. You don't have to worry about divine aid. You don't have to worry about spirit guardians or any other stuff that it does. You just say he either hits you with a mace for 11 points or he hits you with radiant flame for 11 points and he can do two of those. So I think the priest is actually a better cult fanatic than the cult fanatic is now.

But one of the things you can see about the priest is the priest would be a really strong boss monster at level two. It would be a pretty strong elite monster at level four. It would be a pretty strong normal monster at like level six. When you get to level nine and above, now you can run lots of priests against the characters and treat them like minions.

But one of the things you can see about the priest is the priest would be a really strong boss monster at level two. It would be a pretty strong elite monster at level four. It would be a pretty strong normal monster at like level six. When you get to level nine and above, now you can run lots of priests against the characters and treat them like minions.

But one of the things you can see about the priest is the priest would be a really strong boss monster at level two. It would be a pretty strong elite monster at level four. It would be a pretty strong normal monster at like level six. When you get to level nine and above, now you can run lots of priests against the characters and treat them like minions.

So that's something that fourth edition didn't allow for. Fourth edition didn't really allow you to take the same stat block and run it against, like in this case, we're talking about 10 levels of the game. The priest stat block can be useful for 10 full levels of the game.

So that's something that fourth edition didn't allow for. Fourth edition didn't really allow you to take the same stat block and run it against, like in this case, we're talking about 10 levels of the game. The priest stat block can be useful for 10 full levels of the game.

So that's something that fourth edition didn't allow for. Fourth edition didn't really allow you to take the same stat block and run it against, like in this case, we're talking about 10 levels of the game. The priest stat block can be useful for 10 full levels of the game.

having those particular challenge ratings of like two and three give them a tremendous range that they can where they can be useful across the whole game so that's why i'm not so negative about challenge rating i think challenge rating is actually a fine way to compare monsters together and with particular lists you can look and decide ah i can tell what challenge rating means by seeing what other monsters fall into what challenge rating you know where a dragon falls in you know where a vampire falls and you can tell where things fall in

having those particular challenge ratings of like two and three give them a tremendous range that they can where they can be useful across the whole game so that's why i'm not so negative about challenge rating i think challenge rating is actually a fine way to compare monsters together and with particular lists you can look and decide ah i can tell what challenge rating means by seeing what other monsters fall into what challenge rating you know where a dragon falls in you know where a vampire falls and you can tell where things fall in

having those particular challenge ratings of like two and three give them a tremendous range that they can where they can be useful across the whole game so that's why i'm not so negative about challenge rating i think challenge rating is actually a fine way to compare monsters together and with particular lists you can look and decide ah i can tell what challenge rating means by seeing what other monsters fall into what challenge rating you know where a dragon falls in you know where a vampire falls and you can tell where things fall in

But what do you actually use challenge rating for? And this is where like their definition of challenge rating doesn't really stand. And that's because you really are trying to use challenge rating to help you determine what monsters are a good threat or what kind of effect they're going to have in a battle. And that gets into encounter building.

But what do you actually use challenge rating for? And this is where like their definition of challenge rating doesn't really stand. And that's because you really are trying to use challenge rating to help you determine what monsters are a good threat or what kind of effect they're going to have in a battle. And that gets into encounter building.

But what do you actually use challenge rating for? And this is where like their definition of challenge rating doesn't really stand. And that's because you really are trying to use challenge rating to help you determine what monsters are a good threat or what kind of effect they're going to have in a battle. And that gets into encounter building.

Now, the interesting thing is that the D&D 2024 books don't use challenge rating to help you determine encounters. They use experience points. So in the combat encounter section of the Dungeon Master's Guide, instead of using challenge rating to help you determine how difficult a battle may be against a group of monsters, they use experience points. You actually build a budget.

Now, the interesting thing is that the D&D 2024 books don't use challenge rating to help you determine encounters. They use experience points. So in the combat encounter section of the Dungeon Master's Guide, instead of using challenge rating to help you determine how difficult a battle may be against a group of monsters, they use experience points. You actually build a budget.

Now, the interesting thing is that the D&D 2024 books don't use challenge rating to help you determine encounters. They use experience points. So in the combat encounter section of the Dungeon Master's Guide, instead of using challenge rating to help you determine how difficult a battle may be against a group of monsters, they use experience points. You actually build a budget.

You pick what kind of battle you want, low, medium, or hard, or low, moderate, or high. You figure out how many characters you have. You multiply the experience points here. for their given level by the number of characters. And that is your experience points budget. You then spend that budget on various monsters who have a certain number of experience points per challenge rating.