Most inaccurate CRs?

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Bradd wrote:
>> They are obviously celestials. Why would peasants attack them?

Matt Frisch wrote:
> The unknown is dangerous. That's even more true in a D&D universe than
> it is here. Celestials, and Hound Archons in particular, can
> effortlessly be confused with genuine monsters ....

I repeat: Too silly.

> Do peasants get a guidebook on telling Celestials apart from
> Infernals? If people automatically trust anything that looks
> Celestial, then that gives Evil a big open door to exploit gullible
> tools by means of a polymorph spell.

You've never seen the Scourge of Evil video, have you?
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On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 19:33:32 GMT, "Bradd W. Szonye" <bradd+news@szonye.com>
scribed into the ether:

>Bradd wrote:
>>> They are obviously celestials. Why would peasants attack them?
>
>Matt Frisch wrote:
>> The unknown is dangerous. That's even more true in a D&D universe than
>> it is here. Celestials, and Hound Archons in particular, can
>> effortlessly be confused with genuine monsters ....
>
>I repeat: Too silly.

That's nice. Such a convincing arguement, too.

>> Do peasants get a guidebook on telling Celestials apart from
>> Infernals? If people automatically trust anything that looks
>> Celestial, then that gives Evil a big open door to exploit gullible
>> tools by means of a polymorph spell.
>
>You've never seen the Scourge of Evil video, have you?

Never even heard of it.

 

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On 8 Apr 2005 15:44:23 -0700, "DougL" <doug.lampert@tdytsi.com> carved
upon a tablet of ether:

> Do they need "proper planning" to deal with other equal CR
> monsters? Say 4 level 5 ork warriors for a level 8 party?

Well, IME 4 x 4th level Orc fighters can do a lot of damage to an 8th
level party that hadn't planned for a run-in with orcs. If you expect
ogres and get a dragon, you can be in trouble. If you expect a bunch
of gnoll archers and get orc meleeists, you can be in trouble. Lack of
planning gets you beaten up.

> And minor screwups against an equal CR foe by a fresh party should
> carry little risk of a TPK, if they carry a substantial risk against
> a dragon that is yet more evidence that the dragon CR is wrong.

By this logic all monsters that can dish out lots and lots of damage
in one round are under-rated. One mistake vs a troll (CR5) will result
in dead 6th or 7th level characters. The same goes with giants.


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