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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 6720034" data-attributes="member: 463">Well yeah, I meant up to CR 30, though personally I give the stats I want and eyeball a CR afterwards. Over CR 30 I'd probably go "how many CR 30 monsters is this?" but I would probably want to always stick to CR 30 or below for anything you slug it out with face to face; if I ever used miles-long critters I would break down into pieces, treat as terrain etc - take some tips from 4e.I would certainly favour giving my group an advancement after killing Tiamat or similar, but those sort of fights would be rare; I'd expect to mostly use large groups of lower CR critters (bounded accuracy FTW) giving little XP. A CR 25 demon lord plus a group of other demons would be a big fight worthy of an advancement, but you wouldn't get the chance to do that often - certainly no more than once every 8-10 sessions in my online game, but probably much less frequent. Re massive monsters, I wouldn't ever be giving out 400,000 XP per PC. I would cap at either #50,0000 XP each, or minimum-for-two-advancements XP, but if I were regularly giving out more than 30,000 XP I'd be very surprised and would reassess. Looking at the DMG pg 82 it says a Deadly encounter for level 20 characters is 12,700 XP, easy is 2,800 and medium 5700. That is the kind of range of XP award I'd be looking to give for a session.</blockquote>