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Yeah, it would seem that this creature would have a CR of 1/8, but its defensive CR is 1/8 while its offensive CR is 1/4. Averaging those (3/16) and rounding to the nearest CR (2/16 versus 4/16) gets to a CR of 4/16 = 1/4 (if rounding properly).

It's no big deal, but I happen to be converting a huge campaign from third edition at the moment, and I am finding that WoTC didn't follow their own CR computation scheme when building the creatures in the Monster Manual.

 

 

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I think they usually just round down whenever stuff like this comes up. Not sure why, it said in the Dungeon Master's Guide that you round up or down as needed, but that's just what they do I guess.

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always have a cultist encounter ready for your necromancer to raise their bodies if you want to help them out before a boss fight. Need an official undead variant please. 

I don't think that we need an official undead cultist variant, but if you routinely need it you can just keep a stat block in your notes, as I assume you have already been doing.

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LORD HAVE MERCY

we just wall banged one of these

When considering multiple enemies at once, I do like to beef their CR in my head. They each have individual turns, and at this low level these are at, there might not be a lot of AOE for this kind of stuff. Meaning these attacks can get scary if your doing this at lvl. 1 like I am in my campaign. I was considering having roughly 4 of these for lvl. 1. Its a Theros campaign. Thoughts on this?

Depends how many players you have. I'd say 4 would be good for maybe 2 lvl 1 players? For things with pretty low CR I usually do 2 per player. Although you may have to get rid of that +2 damage. I'm not the best person to trust for this but this is just what I'd do.

They might be weak but they have the drip

This helps a lot. Running a campaign with a massive cult. Players are lvl 4-5. Going to have like 30-50 in one area.

I don't use cultists as cultists. I use them as younger guards/soldiers and cult new recruits 

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I think they are way too weak tonbe of use when characters are actually going to fight cults. For example, the art shows dragon cultists. Those guys usually serve dragons or dracoliches. They are feared. This though, could be a guy slain by a regualr townsguard. No spells? Why? Why does the cult fanatic only get the spellcasting feature? And why such a weak one at that? 

In my experience, players will first face off against goblins, kobolds and bandits. Maybe a few animals or maybe even an apprentice wizard. But a proper cult is level 2 or 3 shit and more often than not above that. And those are laughably easy to kill even at that level. And its not only that. Having 10 of them in a room is just boring at higher levels and unnecessarily dangerous at lower ones. 5 of them with a cult fanatic can take on a group of low level adventurers. Yes. But what then? Where those all the cultists then? And why would a goblin boss with a few goblins and a bugbear be more dangerous? Even at higher levels? Its just dumb. To me, a cult should have obvious warlock features. Why not give them darkvision, eldritch blast and maybe better CR? Maybe even a little bit better attributes. Because honestly, those seem much more like devoted townsfolk that took up arms than actual cultists. 

To me, they are too weak to hold up against adventurers of the proper level amd are not good enough to be meatshields at higher ones. They might be nice to throw in an encounter, but I think the stats are simply to uninteresting. Like, what do they get to do? Oh no, the wont run away? Oh, look at this, he swung his scimitar! Oh no, the bard couldn't charm them? Its kinda bad. A goblin is more interesting. A kobold is. They have inherent personality and interesting abilities. Those guys are weak. Like, really weak. 

My rule of thumb is, if a creature is less interesting to fight against than a giant rat, they need to be better. A rat could at least carry an infection or be funny. This is just sad. Maybe a poisoned blade or some fear effect would have made them better. 

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im using 15 for  lvl 5

What if it was a subclass

Great for one shots

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I Use This For Commoners

 what the hell?

 This is a good idea if you want to have angry commoners pose a threat to adventurers that mess with them

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