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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gizmo33" data-source="post: 2199523" data-attributes="member: 30001">My confusion is that this statement, being a non-sequitur, doesn't look like a kobold. In other words, what are you talking about?  The fact that you're playing a game means that miscalculations are allowable?  Perhaps your job as a trauma-room surgeon has given you some sort of perspective on the silliness of games, but I'm pretty sure that a "miscalculation" in the amount of money I should have in Monopoly would not be looked upon favorably by the other players. To claim that a more free-wheeling style when it comes to managing your NPCs somehow follows logically from the fact that it is a game is ignoring what I think are the facts that this is a matter of preference.    No problem.  I wonder if people of that school should even use stats.  Why only use them part of the time?  Is it to maintain an illusion of some sort of conformity to a standard system that both the players and NPCs share in?  Because if that's the case I wonder - of what use is the illusion?  Does it rely on the gullibility of your players?    Sure, grain of salt.  There are plenty of complications in matching CR to actual challenge.  Circumstances can modify the difficulty, there's no way CR can equate to challenge for every monster (eg. everyone in the party has a ring of fire resistance vs. a fire creature).  That being said (and numerous times apparently) I'm not sure that the complexity means that you can continue to compound the error by playing fast and loose with the stats.  Of course you can if you don't care anyway.  So if I'm talking to a DM that's going to change the numbers on the fly in order to make sure that a climactic battle is exciting (and one wonders at the source of the excitement considering that the "closeness" of the battle is preordained and manipulated) then I agree, what is the point of worrying about stat blocks.  Just continue to make things up like you have been.  Done...and done.  (Gizmo now dusts off hands and waits for everyone to start playing DnD the same way)</blockquote>

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