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--- legendary_creatures [2023/09/06 12:00] – created shto
+++ legendary_creatures [2023/09/14 09:48] (current) – [Legendary Resistance] shto
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 ==== Legendary Resistance ====
-A creature with Legendary Resistance no longer has a fixed number of resistances, which it can use to pass a saving throw that it had failed. Instead, Legendary Resistance takes the form of a special feature that requires no action (or even conscious effort) to use. If a creature would be unable to take an action due to any condition or effect present on it, such as being Paralyzed, the creature can ignore the part of the condition or effect that prevents it from taking the action. All other aspects of the condition still applies.
+A creature with Legendary Resistance no longer has a fixed number of resistances, which it can use to pass a saving throw that it had failed. Instead, Legendary Resistance takes the form of a special feature that requires no action (or even conscious effort) to use. If a creature would be unable to take an action due to any condition or effect present on it, such as being Paralyzed, the creature can ignore the part of the condition or effect that prevents it from taking the action. All other aspects of the condition still apply.
-To use a legendary resistance, the creature must typically take damage which cannot be reduced in any way, the amount of damage dependent on the condition or effect being overcome. If the condition or effect originates from a spell, the amount of damage the creature takes is equal to the roll of a number of its hit dice equal to the level of the spell. Otherwise, the damage is equal to 2 rolls of its hit dice.
+To use legendary resistance, the creature must typically take damage which cannot be reduced in any way, the amount of damage dependent on the condition or effect being overcome. If the condition or effect originates from a spell, the amount of damage the creature takes is equal to the roll of a number of its hit dice equal to the level of the spell. Otherwise, the damage is equal to 2 rolls of its hit dice.
-The above is the "standard" way Legendary Resistance will work, but some creatures may have unique twists on it.
+The above is the "standard" way Legendary Resistance will work, but some creatures may have unique twists on it. This legendary resistance also has no limit to the frequency it can be used, or the number of times it can be used.
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 ==== Applying This Reasoning ====
-The issues solo monsters have with the action economy are why Legendary Actions were included in the first place, but they generally don't do enough on their own - they're typically single attacks or movement actions that fail to have enough of an impact to balance the action economy properly. For example, in a balanced encounter with 5hostile creatures, there may be multiple enemies with multiattacks and all of them would have movement options. Meanwhile, a legendary creature that calculates to the same difficulty could move and make three attacks on its turn, but only have 3 additional attacks until its full turn comes around again, and might need to sacrifice one of those attacks to move if it even can.
+The issues solo monsters have with the action economy are why Legendary Actions were included in the first place, but they generally don't do enough on their own - they're typically single attacks or movement actions that fail to have enough of an impact to balance the action economy properly. For example, in a balanced encounter with hostile creatures, there may be multiple enemies with multiattacks and all of them would have movement options. Meanwhile, a legendary creature that calculates to the same difficulty could move and make three attacks on its turn, but only have 3 additional attacks until its full turn comes around again, and might need to sacrifice one of those attacks to move if it even can.
 By allowing Legendary Actions to simply be used to take the equivalent of an additional turn, that makes the action economy more equal. By adding or removing these actions based on health thresholds, it rebalances the action economy as slaying enemies would during a standard encounter. The changes to Legendary Resistance also help to maintain this more balanced action economy, while also being more satisfying. Also, notice that the phrase "turn equivalent" was used, rather than just calling it a turn. This legendary action does not count as taking a turn, mostly for reasons of predictability and consistency.