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<blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 9330650" data-attributes="member: 52734"><p>[ATTACH=full]360466[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Honestly, CR is just there to give the DM a starting point to say "the group ought to be able to handle X, and if you do Y, you're likely to get them killed." It was not meant to be the straight jacket some claim, and one need look no further than the first 5E adventure <em>Hoard of the Dragon Queen</em> to see this with the presence of the blue dragon and overwhelming forces in Greenest. Head-on brashness will get the party killed, and not just in the starting area.</p><p></p><p>The problem is getting some DMs to look beyond CR as a jail cell when running their game. There are things in the world you can't beat by hacking your way through it. There are things that weren't meant to faced only in combat or only as a level Z experience. D&D isn't just a tabletop skirmish game, it's certainly an RPG with tabletop roots, but it is a role-playing game, and there is so much more that can be done with if that part is embraced over hack'n'slash.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stormonu, post: 9330650, member: 52734"] [ATTACH type="full"]360466[/ATTACH] Honestly, CR is just there to give the DM a starting point to say "the group ought to be able to handle X, and if you do Y, you're likely to get them killed." It was not meant to be the straight jacket some claim, and one need look no further than the first 5E adventure [I]Hoard of the Dragon Queen[/I] to see this with the presence of the blue dragon and overwhelming forces in Greenest. Head-on brashness will get the party killed, and not just in the starting area. The problem is getting some DMs to look beyond CR as a jail cell when running their game. There are things in the world you can't beat by hacking your way through it. There are things that weren't meant to faced only in combat or only as a level Z experience. D&D isn't just a tabletop skirmish game, it's certainly an RPG with tabletop roots, but it is a role-playing game, and there is so much more that can be done with if that part is embraced over hack'n'slash. [/QUOTE]
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