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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Philip Benz" data-source="post: 8451538" data-attributes="member: 6975782">The player can only "look it up" if you're using stock monsters straight out of the bestiary. More and more, I find myself modifying creatures and raising their level.We played PF1 for many years, and I will certainly agree that CR is only a very rough measure of critters' power in terms of encounter strength. PF2 is a bit better at that, but there are still wild exceptions of creatures hitting above their strength, mostly due to extraordinary powers.PF2 has also provided us with a quantifiable way to test PCs' knowledge of various things, be it creatures, spells, items or whatever. Assign a level, take into account relative rarity, and you have a target DC.</blockquote>