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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hong" data-source="post: 4117708" data-attributes="member: 537">No, you are going outside the build framework so as to achieve a specific objective.That the rules explicitly gives you a means to bypass the build framework does not answer the question as to why the framework should have to be bypassed on a regular basis.I can use circumstance bonuses and racial bonuses to give a CR 1, 1 HD monster +1000 hp and +1000 damage on its attack if I want. You will say this is ridiculous, because the various formulas and rules that constitute the build framework are meant to disallow such silliness, yes? And that's the point. That I can do this says nothing about the usefulness or otherwise of the framework itself.Said common ground, namely the build framework as applied to NPCs, is unnecessary far more often than not, and serves only to make life difficult. So why bother with it?</blockquote>