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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 7146389" data-attributes="member: 15700">Levels aren't the same as challenge rating, and NPCs don't have levels (nothing stopping you from creating an NPC with levels, just that that's not how they are initially designed).  So if you want to create a CR25 NPC, I'd use the existing guidelines for any other CR25 creature, and probably look at other CR25 creatures to get a good feel about what to include.For example, a "level 20" NPC isn't going to be a CR20 NPC.  They'd be lower than that because a CR20 NPC is supposed to be for 4ea level 20 PCs.  That means if you do use levels for your NPCs, you're going to have to not only max out at level 20, but then give a lot more features to make it a CR20, like a lot more HP, legendary actions probably, etc in addition to the class features.</blockquote>