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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 8573107" data-attributes="member: 86653"><p>I'm firmly in the old-school camp, but it's not accurate to say the DM is powerless over their own game. The DM always has had, and likely always will have, infinite dragons to throw at the party. While I hate the phrase and the nonsense stories it represents, it's still true. The DM can put whatever they need or want in front of the PCs. The DM isn't limited to the CR rating of monsters, nor to the number of monsters in a fight, nor the number of fights 5E is balanced around. Reskinning a CR5 ogre to be an orc still works, same as it always has. Though, admittedly, it's become rather tedious to keep up with the treadmill of power the PCs are on. You have to throw a more than deadly CR5 encounter at a 1st level party just to challenge them, even without power-gaming, munchkins, or optimization nonsense.</p></blockquote><p></p>