Estimating CRs: Steel Dragon [Archive] - Wizards Community

Estimating CRs: Steel Dragon [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Derren S.
08-09-05, 12:14 PM I looked through my favorites archive and found a link to the 3.5 Steel Dragon (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mm/20040328a) .

And while I am not an expert at estimating CRs even I can see that the CRs are totally incorrect. A huge dragon with caster level 21 is not CR 18.

So either the one making the CR had no idea what he did or when writing the website there was a mistake ( see how very young and young have the same CR? I think at that step he used the same CR twice and this mistaked carried over to all other CRs)

So, what would you think would be a correct CR and LA for this dragon?
Ogre4Hire
08-09-05, 07:21 PM Keep in mind that true dragons have artificially low CRs to make them more challenging than the average monster.

Also, it's really hard to estimate the "correct" CR of a monster without looking at his whole stats.
Derren S.
08-09-05, 07:30 PM Also, it's really hard to estimate the "correct" CR of a monster without looking at his whole stats.

The "Steel Dragon" in my first sentence is a link to the full stats....

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Derren S. 08-09-05, 12:14 PM	I looked through my favorites archive and found a link to the 3.5 Steel Dragon (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mm/20040328a) . And while I am not an expert at estimating CRs even I can see that the CRs are totally incorrect. A huge dragon with caster level 21 is not CR 18. So either the one making the CR had no idea what he did or when writing the website there was a mistake ( see how very young and young have the same CR? I think at that step he used the same CR twice and this mistaked carried over to all other CRs) So, what would you think would be a correct CR and LA for this dragon?
Ogre4Hire 08-09-05, 07:21 PM	Keep in mind that true dragons have artificially low CRs to make them more challenging than the average monster. Also, it's really hard to estimate the "correct" CR of a monster without looking at his whole stats.
Derren S. 08-09-05, 07:30 PM	Also, it's really hard to estimate the "correct" CR of a monster without looking at his whole stats. The "Steel Dragon" in my first sentence is a link to the full stats....