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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 3802315" data-attributes="member: 22424">The thing is, while there are flaws in the CR/EL system, they aren't the flaws that Mike Mearls is talking about. He'd have been on much stronger ground if he'd commented about lone spellcasters being too weak for their CR, especially if they don't get time to prepare, or the difficulties of assigning CRs to powerful creatures generally, or what have you.Heck, he could even have not talked about flaws in the system at all, but instead contrasted the &quot;party vs one monster&quot; style of 3e with the &quot;party vs many monsters&quot; style of 4e, and said that, on balance, the designers found the latter more fun.Very true. Although I might be tempted to suggest that, when writing something like &quot;Sage Advice&quot;, a designer who knows his memory might be tainted by 'beta knowledge' should probably check the actual rules before posting from memory. Sage Advice is worse than useless if it is wrong more than about 1% of the time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 3802315, member: 22424"] The thing is, while there are flaws in the CR/EL system, they aren't the flaws that Mike Mearls is talking about. He'd have been on much stronger ground if he'd commented about lone spellcasters being too weak for their CR, especially if they don't get time to prepare, or the difficulties of assigning CRs to powerful creatures generally, or what have you. Heck, he could even have not talked about flaws in the system at all, but instead contrasted the "party vs one monster" style of 3e with the "party vs many monsters" style of 4e, and said that, on balance, the designers found the latter more fun. Very true. Although I might be tempted to suggest that, when writing something like "Sage Advice", a designer who knows his memory might be tainted by 'beta knowledge' should probably check the [i]actual[/i] rules before posting from memory. Sage Advice is worse than useless if it is wrong more than about 1% of the time. [/QUOTE]

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