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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8640292" data-attributes="member: 6704184">The thing is, the critters are given their CR and abilities on the balance basis of a fairly long adventuring day, with a certain level of difficulty. I mean, a &quot;deadly&quot; encounter is called that for a reason. Rather than worrying about PC abilities, IMO it makes&nbsp; more sense to change monsters in simple ways, use templates, make more enemies &quot;legendary&quot;, etc. And buy Monster of The Multiverse, actually. It makes monsters hit harder, and makes them harder to counter, in general.How would you do that in a way that doesn't just mean that every Champion you fight gives the party the same three magic items when defeated? Advice in the MM on how to easily integrate magic and special abilities to simple enemies would be great, though.That, and I think they were in danger more than a lot of folks think. Matt redesigns a lot of monsters to be more engaging and dangerous.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8640292, member: 6704184"] The thing is, the critters are given their CR and abilities on the balance basis of a fairly long adventuring day, with a certain level of difficulty. I mean, a "deadly" encounter is called that for a reason. Rather than worrying about PC abilities, IMO it makes more sense to change monsters in simple ways, use templates, make more enemies "legendary", etc. And buy Monster of The Multiverse, actually. It makes monsters hit harder, and makes them harder to counter, in general. How would you do that in a way that doesn't just mean that every Champion you fight gives the party the same three magic items when defeated? Advice in the MM on how to easily integrate magic and special abilities to simple enemies would be great, though. That, and I think they [I]were[/I] in danger more than a lot of folks think. Matt redesigns a lot of monsters to be more engaging and dangerous. [/QUOTE]

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