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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 9602349" data-attributes="member: 6701124">It felt odd that they said:"The Dungeon Master's Guide provides guidance to the DM on using CR while planning potential combat encounters."but the rules for doing so just used the XP.Similarly that:"Challenge Rating summarizes the threat a monster poses and is detailed in the Monster Manual."but it is essentially just a CR to XP table.It felt like they were building it up for CR to mean more in and of itself than just a shorthand for the monster XP.  And since the encounter building XP table has different spreads from the CR to XP table, it is only an ordering of them and not directly useful for judging what level of characters a CR goes with anyway.</blockquote>