I gave the character two shortswords, light weapons for two-weapon fighting.
I’m going to focus on their damage, not their Save DC, to calculate their Offensive CR.Ĭalculating the average damage takes a little more work. I almost always add more Hit Dice when creating custom creatures or NPCs. The Creature’s CR is the average of the two.īased on what I’d done so far, my custom ranger NPC stat block’s results were: The Attack Bonus and Damage (or Save DC for spell casters) set the creature’s Offensive Challenge Rating. The second and third values (Armor Class and Hit Points) determine the creature’s Defensive Challenge Rating.
Here’s what it looks like from CR 4-8, the range I expected my NPC stat block to fall in: CR For simple monsters / NPCs you pick a CR for the creature and then go across for their stats. Now, finally, I reached the hard and annoying part: running everything against the table in the DMG to calculate a Challenge Rating and make any needed adjustments.
