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Message: <blockquote data-quote="moritheil" data-source="post: 3461352" data-attributes="member: 30610">But I'm not removing or changing it - I'm interpreting an ambiguously worded item.That is exactly what it seemed like you were doing, until you clarified.  That is exactly what I meant to accuse you of.  I am not in need of edification on that subject.  But thank you for clarifying.You are confusing CR with power level.  Now, I know that WoTC sold CR as an estimate of power level, so it's an easy mistake to make.  However, by the rules and the rules alone, CR really represents a fixed amount of resources that can be poured into making something, just as player levels represent a fixed amount of resources that can be put into making a character.  What you can buy with those resources can be optimal or suboptimal.  RAW, it's still the same CR as long as you follow the CR rules.  If CR really was power level, you wouldn't get these truisms about dragons and demons often being more powerful than their CR.I know some DMs like to use "handwaving CR," where they look something over and say, "This looks like a CR so-and-so to me."  That's their prerogative.  I don't do things that way.And for the record, every monster I put into play has its feats and skills reworked.  Of course there's no change in CR.  I'm just making the monsters not suck because whoever wrote them couldn't be bothered to do it right.I do, and my players do.</blockquote>