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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ThirdWizard" data-source="post: 2944094" data-attributes="member: 12037">The most likely answer to that is probably because its more complicated to design and more complicated to use as a DM. CRs are really designed in a vacuum. Sometimes that's bad, for example the half red dragon template on a troll is more powerful than the half-dragon template on most other creatures of the same CR. So, its partially ease of use. Groups of monsters, also, don't change the CR (instead EL), so designing a monster that needs a CR X friend to be effective is inelegant and clashes with the system.Of course, classed NPCs are the same way, and notice how they're brushed over in the rules. They're handled very poorly. Perhaps doing something like that with monsters, giving them support roles, would force WotC to acknowledge and try to fix the problems with NPCs' CRs.That might work. It wouldn't be for everyone, but monsters presented as a "party" who are to be encountered as a group would probably work. I guess one reason they haven't done this is because it takes up more space in the book and work to design, and it goes against the more classic monster construction present throughout the history of D&D.</blockquote>