My first/best example for how loosely Larian handles CR, and monsters in general, is the first possible battle after the crash. An intellect devourer is a CR7(!) creature, with 71 hit points and boat load of innate psionic abilities, that should shred a full 1st level party in one round, yet we can easy dispatch 3 of them without getting hit once, by employing a bit of stealth and high ground advantage... if that's the level of adherence to D&D rules we can expect for this game, than they could have stuck to der Divinity system. I mean, sure, you can always say those are new born creatures, a lesser variant or they are weakened from the crash... but what I smell here is distinct air of:
"Damn the rules, it's cool so we do it!" followed by a slight breeze of: "...only because we market something as the sequel to a beloved gaming series, doesn't mean we can't do whatever we want with it."
Last edited by WarBaby2; 09/10/20 06:00 PM.
