Man Forever question

[chopswil]

In Dungeon 137 on Page 74, it has "3. Ruined Building (CR 8)" followed by some decsriptive text.
1) Why does it have CR 8 for an area that has no monsters or traps and just a decription?
2) Why CR 8 instead of EL 8?

thanks

[Doc_Outlands]

Perhaps they were using voice-recognition software? Maybe what was rendered "CR 8" was supposed to be "crates" - thus detailing what was in the area...

(up toooooo late at this point...)

[Heathansson]

There's three weretigers sitting there eating Frosted Flakes.
They're CR 8!
Heathansson (up2late2)

[chopswil]

plus there is no "Scaling the Adventure" sidebar

[James Jacobs]

Originally, that ruined building was so rickety it would collapse on anyone who tried to enter; since a cave in (which is what this encounter originally was) is a CR 8 encounter (according to the DMG), this area got an EL 8 encoutner tag.

Alas, we had to cut some of the adventure to make it fit, including this collapsing building. We forgot to cut the (EL 8) that went along with it.

The missing Scaling the Adventure sidebar was something we noticed way too late to fix, alas. Fortunately, this adventure's fairly easy to scale, since so many of the bad guys are monsters with class levels or advanced Hit Dice. Simply reduce or increase the monsters' class levels to match the difference between your party's level and the adventure's target level and it should take care of itself pretty handilly.