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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8883272" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>Okay, I think the Top Ballista is about ready for release, so that only leaves the <strong><a href="https://www.enworld.org/posts/8872817" target="_blank">Animated Object Shrapnel Swarm</a></strong>.</p><p></p><p>I'm currently undecided on how tough to make that. Keep on vacillating between Challenge 3 and 5. On the one hand, I'd like to have an easily created CR 5 subject for an <em>animate objects</em> spell, of the other hand the 5E <em>Monster Manual</em> swarms are all low CR, with the strongest being the CR 2 Swarm of Poisonous Snakes.</p><p></p><p>Let's see, an individual Poisonous Snake is CR 1/8 while a spell-standard Tiny Animated Object is CR 1/4, implying the object is twice as dangerous as the snake, so if a Snake Swarm is CR 2 then the Object Swarm would be around CR 4… which is exactly between the CR 5 and 3 I'm considering.</p><p></p><p>That's not much help!</p><p></p><p>Don't fancy using CR 4 as we've already got the spell-standard Huge Animated Object in that slot.</p><p></p><p>Heck, I'll figure it out in the morning. Done enough for today.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: I've more or less deciding to do split the issue and do two swarms, the Shrapnel Swarm at CR 5 and a generic "Swarm of Animated Objects" at CR 3 that is less lethal and usually does bludgeoning damage like the default constructs produced by <em>animate objects</em>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 8883272, member: 57383"] Okay, I think the Top Ballista is about ready for release, so that only leaves the [B][URL='https://www.enworld.org/posts/8872817']Animated Object Shrapnel Swarm[/URL][/B]. I'm currently undecided on how tough to make that. Keep on vacillating between Challenge 3 and 5. On the one hand, I'd like to have an easily created CR 5 subject for an [I]animate objects[/I] spell, of the other hand the 5E [I]Monster Manual[/I] swarms are all low CR, with the strongest being the CR 2 Swarm of Poisonous Snakes. Let's see, an individual Poisonous Snake is CR 1/8 while a spell-standard Tiny Animated Object is CR 1/4, implying the object is twice as dangerous as the snake, so if a Snake Swarm is CR 2 then the Object Swarm would be around CR 4… which is exactly between the CR 5 and 3 I'm considering. That's not much help! Don't fancy using CR 4 as we've already got the spell-standard Huge Animated Object in that slot. Heck, I'll figure it out in the morning. Done enough for today. EDIT: I've more or less deciding to do split the issue and do two swarms, the Shrapnel Swarm at CR 5 and a generic "Swarm of Animated Objects" at CR 3 that is less lethal and usually does bludgeoning damage like the default constructs produced by [i]animate objects[/i]. [/QUOTE]
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