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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 3195123" data-attributes="member: 99">Actually I think that there could easily be an escalating risk and a high point of danger in a setup where every room had the same CR or even the exact same group of monsters.  There are two HUGE variables outside the makeup of the monsters:  The Party and The Dice.A party is going to expend resources as they move from room to room.  Presumably the third room with six goblins is more challenging than the first room with six goblins because they'll have fewer hit points, spells or any other expendable resource.Then there are those pesky dice.  How many times have we seen a fairly easy group of monsters pose a huge threat to a party or even TPK them?  How many times have the PC's breezed right through a really tough challenge thanks to the dice?  It happens all the time.For those reasons I think that we will frequently end up with a "BBEG" even when one isn't planned.  When the fighter goes down to a lucky crit and the Rogue and Wizard are left facing the creature with DR all of a sudden, that critter just became your BBEG.  That goblin in the first room who rolled 20's three times in a row and that the fighter and ranger cannot roll above a 5 on?  He's your BBEG.I've seen it happen many a time that the most memorable encounter of an adventure wasn't against the BBEG but against one particular monster who just got very lucky with the dice.</blockquote>