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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Garthanos" data-source="post: 5210190" data-attributes="member: 82504">Where exactly is this mythical text recommending all encounters match the level of the party? Or have you a different exotic definition of that too. It certainly sounds like an edition war straw man diatribe to me.Level is a tool which lets the dm know how challenging or impossible an encounter is likely to be. Balance allows character level to actually have meaning and be used for that purpose. (its not perfectstill possible for instance to have PCs with no ranged capability and make them effectivelylower level against some enemies). If characters of the same level are likely to have very greatly diverging ability then balance is offIn part because one characters potency doesn't necessarily make the whole group will be able to copewith the enemy that can challenge him and it is much much harder or maybe even impossible for collectively to make reasonable choices about which encounter to engage. (no noteven if you tell them the levels explicitly... because they have been left with a p-poor measure of there own capability) and if balance is off with the monsters say random hit points resultingin some level 7 encounters being very easy and others to be 8 x as difficult then that justcompounded the problem.  Basically level loses its meaning and you might as well toss them and play some other game.(levels with meaning are feature of D&D not a problem) So balance is important for the very reason you want to let players have choicesbecause it gives them a tool to base those choices on. (I don't think we are even addressing the OP issues his PCs were too consistently too powerful)  and expecting level +0 to be challenging so we are just diverging the thread unnecessarily... his answer was proably made post 4 or 5 by somebody saying adjust the levels of enemies up a notch or two and move along.</blockquote>

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