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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 3787398" data-attributes="member: 40961">I didn't think that "rampage" was a special ability.  I think you're reading too much into this.  I think it was just a verb.KarinsDad- I think the idea is this.  There is some sort of chart of benchmarks for a monster of a particular level with a particular role.  Your characters are 7th level.  You as the DM look through the monster manual and find a great monster, but its level 4.  You need to make it more powerful for it to be a decent challenge (or else use more than one, or give it allies, but you've chosen to make it more powerful).  So all you do is you take the monster, and increase its AC, HP, Attack Bonus, and Damage to match the benchmarks for 7th level.  And voila, you've got a level 7 appropriate monster.There will still be a rating on a monster telling you what level its appropriate for, ie, CR.  The difference is, if you want to change that, instead of doing what you do now, which is apply templates, level up the monster in monster levels, or give it PC or NPC levels, you just bump its stats up a bit and move on.If it works like advertised, it should reduce the time spent "monster creating" significantly.</blockquote>