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Message: <blockquote data-quote="keterys" data-source="post: 4944641" data-attributes="member: 43019">You can decide how deadly you want your games and build the encounters however you want... that doesn't mean that a monster should be more than twice as effective as other monsters of its level. That's a statistical anomaly that should be rectified. And one that's not easy for a DM to detect until they're pretty experienced.Y'know, a newbie DM not knowing any better shouldn't go 'Okay, so these 2 Needlefang Drake Swarms, 2 Hobgoblin Slingers, and a Hobgoblin Warcaster... that's an n+1 fight so should be no problem for my newbie group, and then watch them be torn to shreds, while another DM throws some giant rats and human bandits and is like 'Wow, my guys are invulnerable, they breezed through that no problem!'Least, that's my theory and why I started trying to find outlier monsters who deal far too little or far too much damage.</blockquote>