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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hastur_nz" data-source="post: 7052368" data-attributes="member: 40592">Confusing Gaze isn't an Action for the Umber Hulk, it happens at the start of every PC's turn, unless they are over 30 feet away or they can't see it.Sounds like single monsters are not a great threat, which is not unusual, that's the way it goes.  And giving them very high CR single opponents won't fix that, one day that powerful monster will get lucky and slaughter them.  As a rule of thumb, a single creature needs to be Legendary to provide a decent challenge, but even then YMMV.  You need to give the players multiple opponents to fight at once, so they are forced to decide how best to take them out, not just gang up on one opponent and hit it with so many actions it's dead in a round or two.  And accept that sometimes the PC's will just walk over an encounter with ease - that's fine, not everything should be overly hard.</blockquote>