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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fishbone" data-source="post: 3419276" data-attributes="member: 40849">I have a few bones to pick with the CR system. One of them being the goofy assumption that an NPC character with levels equals a CR appropriate to that level.The other main beef is the "Dennis Rodman monster". Remember Dennis, the crossdressing psycho rebound machine for the Pistons and Bulls?Anyhow, he wrote a book called "As Bad As I Want To Be" and thats the point I want to address. The monsters are as bad as the DM wants them to be. For instance, lets take a dragon. Any dragon from CR 14+ should be a total party kill if run properly. d12 super-statted sorcerers with cunning, wisdom, and centuries of experience with the amount of broken spells and material in things like the Draconomicon and 3rd party books means that if the DM doesn't manage to kill at least half the party he isn't playing the Dragon to its fullest.But plenty of parties have survived dragon encounters because the DM runs them like softies. An optimally ran casting creature should chew a party up and spit it out every time.</blockquote>