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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6906370" data-attributes="member: 12731">The thing is, on paper you're right. But.For one thing, the Nalfeshnee stat block is certainly not deserving of CR 14. Its melee packs a fair punch, but everything else about this demon is weaksauce. For another thing, we're not talking about a regular speed-bump encounter here. The text places Slaughtertusk as the guardian of the Maze Engine. The rules for dramatic encounters <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> says this encounter should not be a two-round stomp (like a regular speed-bump encounter could be). The actual text of the module strongly suggest the writers had intended to follow these rules, only they failed miserably.And again, had this been an isolated encounter, I wouldn't have been here. The point is that OotA consistently plays a level 6-8ish game with level 12-16 characters to the point where you need to completely switch out its encounters if you want to even remotely challenge your PCs.You can't have three goblins or a troll as resource-depleting encounters at this level. You need something completely different; like from a different tier of play.</blockquote>