Epinephrine
2009-11-25, 01:51 PM
I noticed, when advancing a Mind Flayer (I assume I can refer to them, even if they aren't OGL?), that their Spell Resistance (SR) advances with character level. I like this - SR that doesn't advance as one levels is relatively meaningless, as it quickly falls behind and provides no protection.
If a portion of the Challenge Rating (CR) for an encounter is in fact based on the creature's SR, not advancing the SR when the creature advances reduces the creature's effective CR. I don't think that it is RAW to advance SR for creatures (I can't find any reference to it), but does it seem reasonable to other DMs to bump SR of advanced creatures by the CR they advance? (The closest thing I found was the instruction to "Make sure to "scale" your evaluation of these abilities by the monster’s current CR," in reference to adding special abilities, including special qualities that, "seriously diminishes the monster’s vulnerability to common attacks," which could include SR.)
If the CR 8 version has about 50% protection from a level 8 party, should the CR 13 version get about 50% protection from a level 13 party?
If a portion of the Challenge Rating (CR) for an encounter is in fact based on the creature's SR, not advancing the SR when the creature advances reduces the creature's effective CR. I don't think that it is RAW to advance SR for creatures (I can't find any reference to it), but does it seem reasonable to other DMs to bump SR of advanced creatures by the CR they advance? (The closest thing I found was the instruction to "Make sure to "scale" your evaluation of these abilities by the monster’s current CR," in reference to adding special abilities, including special qualities that, "seriously diminishes the monster’s vulnerability to common attacks," which could include SR.)
If the CR 8 version has about 50% protection from a level 8 party, should the CR 13 version get about 50% protection from a level 13 party?