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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 3119497" data-attributes="member: 1465">The biggest turn-off to mature players in my own experience, is that quantitative complexity invariably results in the weakening of other areas of the game.The high-level spellcasters case is terrible: with all the spells a dragon or a wizard could cast, paired with their very high Int scores, should result in making them tremendously powerful adversaries, ready to face most of the possible threats.But when a human DM has to roleplay them, it's all too common that she cannot remember all the spells available, and the villain is suddenly playing much below its own potential.I've been a DM for years, and still I have to spend a lot of time in preparing a session to make sure the villains are going to be smart. Incidentally, playing monsters below their real strength also results in having to use higher-CR creatures, which is turns give the character a faster advancement, moving more quickly towards scenarios with more spells and more abilities <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> That is why I try to make sure to play my monsters smart, so that even when the CR is equal to the party's level, it is still a tough fight.</blockquote>