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<blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6299472" data-attributes="member: 6775031">Challenge Rating is supposed to be a convenient value, which serves as a function of level. Specifically, where level would indicate that something is an equal challenge to anything else of the same level (i.e. it's estimated to cost you 100% of your resources, so there's a 50% chance of either side winning), Challenge Rating indicates that something is X% less powerful than something of the same level, such that a party of that level would spend an average of 25% of its resources before securing victory.Granted, it does lend itself quite readily toward use in Encounter Guidelines. If you want to pose a challenge that will cost the party 25% of its resources, then you should be able to throw them against an encounter with CR equal to their level, but there's no suggestion that it should be the case. It just avoids the confusion between over-use of the term &quot;level&quot; where a level 8 monster is designed to be X% weaker than a level 8 PC.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Crimson Binome, post: 6299472, member: 6775031"] Challenge Rating is supposed to be a convenient value, which serves as a function of level. Specifically, where level would indicate that something is an equal challenge to anything else of the same level (i.e. it's estimated to cost you 100% of your resources, so there's a 50% chance of either side winning), Challenge Rating indicates that something is X% less powerful than something of the same level, such that a party of that level would spend an average of 25% of its resources before securing victory. Granted, it does lend itself quite readily toward use in Encounter Guidelines. If you [I]want[/I] to pose a challenge that will cost the party 25% of its resources, then you should be able to throw them against an encounter with CR equal to their level, but there's no suggestion that it [I]should[/I] be the case. It just avoids the confusion between over-use of the term "level" where a level 8 monster is designed to be X% weaker than a level 8 PC. [/QUOTE]

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