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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 9541336" data-attributes="member: 58197">It isn't always that clear-cut.Suppose I plan an encounter with the expectation that it should be X difficulty; but either I make a miscalculation or the listed CR for that monster is off (as has been known to happen), and the combat is either way harder or way easier than I intended.If I see this and adjust the monster's stats on the fly to bring it back to the difficulty I meant the encounter to be in the first place, is that fudging? Is it materially different from if I'd made those same adjustments when planning the encounter?A purist might argue that I shouldn't be calibrating encounter difficulty to PC power level at all; the monsters are what they are and the PCs have to know when to fight and when to bug out. But once you accept such calibration as a legit thing for a DM to do, it's a lot harder to draw a sharp line.</blockquote>