Verlox
2010-09-08, 09:55 PM
Howdy. Well, after playing through the Price of Immortality series of publish adventures, I've decided to start designing my own adventures. I got a good deal of it down, but I simply cannot figure out how to create combat encounters with NPCs.
To be specific: Hobgoblins.
Now, I know in the Bestiary it lists the level 1 hobgoblin fighter a CR 1/2. Ok, I dig that. But how do I raise the CR of a single hobgoblin? Add class levels, correct?
Ok, if that's right, here's my next questions.
The general rule of thumb seems to be that CR = Class Levels. So that does that mean that a level 4 hobgoblin fighter would be CR 2? Or CR 4?
One more bunch. Bear with me, now.
Lets say you're designing an encounter for a three person party with APL 7. I wanna make it a challenging encounter, so I decided to make the encounter Challenge Rating 8. But I also want to make it vs. a single npc. Lets use a hobgoblin! So would the fight be against a level 8 hobgoblin fighter? Or a level 16 hobgoblin fighter?
Would different classes adjust the CR? Would a level 1 hobgoblin cleric have a CR of 1? 3/7?
My apologies for any sort of idiocy. I'm a bit new to this.
To be specific: Hobgoblins.
Now, I know in the Bestiary it lists the level 1 hobgoblin fighter a CR 1/2. Ok, I dig that. But how do I raise the CR of a single hobgoblin? Add class levels, correct?
Ok, if that's right, here's my next questions.
The general rule of thumb seems to be that CR = Class Levels. So that does that mean that a level 4 hobgoblin fighter would be CR 2? Or CR 4?
One more bunch. Bear with me, now.
Lets say you're designing an encounter for a three person party with APL 7. I wanna make it a challenging encounter, so I decided to make the encounter Challenge Rating 8. But I also want to make it vs. a single npc. Lets use a hobgoblin! So would the fight be against a level 8 hobgoblin fighter? Or a level 16 hobgoblin fighter?
Would different classes adjust the CR? Would a level 1 hobgoblin cleric have a CR of 1? 3/7?
My apologies for any sort of idiocy. I'm a bit new to this.