rrwoods
2015-06-14, 05:17 PM
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nx-o8VAjhUwh3nnfzDQT-JA5eFLnN_BZJiBitGjBMDg/mobilebasic?pli=1
This document suggests a way of picking your monsters for an encounter in a manner similar to buying an army in warhammer. Seems really useful (and obviously comes with all the caveats associated with how bad the CR system really is -- don't worry, I read the article and I understand that stuff at least conceptually).
But it's for pathfinder, and I play and run D&D. I figured it wouldn't be a problem, just fiddle with the numbers until you get the right ones for 3.5 and everything is fine -- but it doesn't even scale the same way? Or I'm missing something?
If I go to the encounter calculator on d20srd, 1 ECL 1 vs 1 CR 1 comes to 300 XP (which is in the "CR +3" column for character level 1), but 1 ECL 4 vs 1 CR 4 comes to 1,200 (which is apparently the amount for "CR +4"). What gives? Is the 3.5 CR system just even more unbearable than the pathfinder one?
This document suggests a way of picking your monsters for an encounter in a manner similar to buying an army in warhammer. Seems really useful (and obviously comes with all the caveats associated with how bad the CR system really is -- don't worry, I read the article and I understand that stuff at least conceptually).
But it's for pathfinder, and I play and run D&D. I figured it wouldn't be a problem, just fiddle with the numbers until you get the right ones for 3.5 and everything is fine -- but it doesn't even scale the same way? Or I'm missing something?
If I go to the encounter calculator on d20srd, 1 ECL 1 vs 1 CR 1 comes to 300 XP (which is in the "CR +3" column for character level 1), but 1 ECL 4 vs 1 CR 4 comes to 1,200 (which is apparently the amount for "CR +4"). What gives? Is the 3.5 CR system just even more unbearable than the pathfinder one?