So, I have no work in the morning an have mild insomnia, let's throw something out.
I was watching a video, which I am not going to link because it is more than an hour and a number of you people don't do that stuff, it was mostly about how bounded accuracy doesn't work as advertised and the flaws in its implementation in 5e,
In Short,
-Saves are busted because DCs are expected to increase over time but saves are not, removing one of the goals of increased player agency without being inhibited by needing to significantly plan out a character
- The math of the game is fundamentally off because attack bonuses and damage values of monsters increase by CR, but not PC AC values, leading to a feeling of characters getting weaker as they level rather than stronger
- the lack of need for mechanical bonuses from other sources leading to looser game design with multiple areas that are easy to exploit
But the thing I am more interested in,
Is this nugget. Its a blog from 2018 (so definitely not new information), but the idea it posits is interesting. It is essentially a list of observations comparing the DMG monster guidelines and Monster Manuel statblocks and noting some weird stuff, in short:
- Monsters tend to have lower HP and expected damage across the board than the DMG would have us believe
- Monsters tend to have higher attack values then what the DMG would have us believe
- Monster HP, AC, Damage and Attack bonuses have mild correlation. The DMG would have us believe high attack bonuses would be balanced by lower damage and vice versa. but in practice there is little to suggest that in the MM. High AC monsters have comparable HP to low AC monsters and High Attack bonus monsters have comparable damage to Low Attack Bonus monsters.
- Of particular personal validation, Resistances and Immunity have no correlation to a monsters HP to a given CR, which makes sense as vulnerability does not according to the DMG, despite being the same thing from a game perspective presented differently
Does this match up with what people have observed using these systems? What are your opinions on any of this?