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Message: <blockquote data-quote="N'raac" data-source="post: 5813458" data-attributes="member: 6681948">One challenge of "monster as character" is that Challenge Rating assesses how effective the creature is against PC's, not as PC's.  For example, the ability to regenerate, say, 1 hp per minute seems unlikely to make a monster a much greater challenge against the PC's - even in a lengthy fight, getting back even 1 hp is unlikely.  But a PC can regain 60 hp (an 11th caster level Cure Critical Wounds, or almost 6 1d8+5 CLW spells) in an hour, so the party's healing resources can last a lot longer.Damage Reduction against all but magic weapons isn't all that powerful against PC's above very low levels - they all have magic weapons anyway.  But what percentage of PC opponents have no magical weapons (perhaps because they fight with natural weapons)?  This is a much greater advantage to the PC - and how many PC opponents will have silver weapons to bypass a Lycanthrope's DR?</blockquote>