CER: Alternate Dungeons II

Giants and stuff.

I liked The Titan's House in the Alternate Dungeons II issue, and I enjoyed the enemy stats. Today's post is a quickie, but if you are like me, and like having encounter CERs ready to go, then this might save some time if you are thinking about porting this to another situation.

Enemy Name	OR	PR	CER
Giant Chicken	15	54	69
Gromm Wyrmslayer	41	67	108
Vorg	87	67	154
Freyla	38	38	78
Baby Skrom	0	19	19
Warband Giant	42	26	68
Giant-Thralls	18	16	34

Other Thoughts

It almost seems sacrilegious to reuse the characters with names in a different setting. That's ok. I mostly wanted the numbers on the giant chickens and the other generic giants. Numerically speaking, they don't sound that bad, and they are around what I was hoping for, on the other hand, those damage numbers are pretty worrisome. I am trying to teach myself not to hold so much back, but I still have this weird guilt tendency when I have players that put themselves in a terrible and vulnerable place where I don't feel like killing them. Maybe baby steps, instead of killing someone outright, I'll make the strong targets maim the players... if they are given the chance?

On the original adventure, I haven't played it, but I like that it strikes a balance between things that you can kill, things you shouldn't kill, and things that almost certainly will kill you. It is interesting because I have trouble in mixing up difficulty levels in my games. The fights I set up are just so finely balanced with little surprise, it seems a bit routine... unless someone gets a serious fumble or critical hit to shake it up, which then starts a spiral into panic and self preservation to right the situation. Ah well! I'll crack it one day with practice.