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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 6985412" data-attributes="member: 6788736">No, it wasnt. It was given that CR in expectation of the fact it would be one of many encounters in that adventuring day.Monster CR is given within the context of the 6-8 encounter adventuring day. Removing a monster from that context, alters the challenge. Your players can now engage in nova strikes against it, likley killing it inside a round or two.Wizards didnt underestimate high level monsters; they just expected them to be fought as one piece of a longer adventuring day. The challenge in 5E is not winning/ surviving [individual encounters]; the challenge is winning/ surviving [the adventuring day].The disparity in power you're noting here is because you havent figured this out yet. You're running 1-2 encounter adventuring days. Accordingly your PCs can nova (dropping smites/ action surges/ 9th level spells) at will. High level PCs with a lot of magic items nova striking can dish out hundreds of damage each round. They'll cream single encounter adventuring days unless you make them Deadly++++ (in which case the game becomes a glorified game of rocket tag, and you devalue the crap out of fighters, monks and warlocks).</blockquote>