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When Fiends Attack: Are Balors, Pit Fiends and Ultraloths too weak?
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<blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 7007359" data-attributes="member: 6701872"><p>No, it isn't.</p><p></p><p>It takes assumptions that need not be exactly as made to achieve, and in actual play would only come up if the goal is to reach the result of lower level characters defeating higher CR enemies.</p><p></p><p>The only problem that can arise is for someone's desired outcome of lower level characters facing a higher CR enemy to not match the outcome they are making likely with their choices of how to run the game.</p><p></p><p>Of course, a significant reason why my answer to this question is "No." is what Challenge Rating actually means in the 5th edition game. It is not the level at which a party is meant to be able to have reasonable chances of defeating the monster - it is only the level at which the monster's defeat is nearly assured not to include any player character casualties. And because the moment that you include the assumption of optional rules being in use, you are by definition making CR less accurate because it is assigned relative to the default rules of the game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AaronOfBarbaria, post: 7007359, member: 6701872"] No, it isn't. It takes assumptions that need not be exactly as made to achieve, and in actual play would only come up if the goal is to reach the result of lower level characters defeating higher CR enemies. The only problem that can arise is for someone's desired outcome of lower level characters facing a higher CR enemy to not match the outcome they are making likely with their choices of how to run the game. Of course, a significant reason why my answer to this question is "No." is what Challenge Rating actually means in the 5th edition game. It is not the level at which a party is meant to be able to have reasonable chances of defeating the monster - it is only the level at which the monster's defeat is nearly assured not to include any player character casualties. And because the moment that you include the assumption of optional rules being in use, you are by definition making CR less accurate because it is assigned relative to the default rules of the game. [/QUOTE]
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