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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 2652890" data-attributes="member: 94">That's right.Upper_Krust in particular noticed it first because he's working on a lot of Epic stuff. When you're dealing with PCs in the high-100th levels, you begin to notice that the power differential between a 100th level PC and a CR102 monster is not the same as the power differential between a 1st level PC and a CR3 monster.The proper scaling of CR/EL is parabolic, not linear, as the DMG would indicate. The DMG views a CR20 creature as an equal threat to an 18th level party as a CR3 creature is to a 1st level party (difference of +2 CR). This is demonstrably not true as you may have noticed if you've done any high-level play. A single CR20 creature is pretty handily mopped up by four 18th level PCs, whereas conversely the 1st level party is pretty heavily threatened by the CR3 monster.</blockquote>