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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 2119909" data-attributes="member: 94">It's not just you. Dragons in the core rules are deliberately undercosted in order to make them "seem" tougher. In practice this means that a 10th level party who encounters a CR10 dragon-- which should be a moderate encounter for them-- will walk away from that fight going, "Man! Dragons are tough!" The assumption being, of course, that most GMs are not smart enough to play the dragon intelligently enough to make it genuinely tough. Hence, the CR crutch. It's asinine, and it undermines the usefulness of CR to the GM.You can multiply by .75 again after the spreadsheet gives you your FINAL CR for a "WOTC" estimate of your dragon's CR. (Or you can take the figure shown in the "Golden Rule" cell and divide by 2 before performing any rounding off, just to make sure nothing gets rounded off twice.)</blockquote>