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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6722242" data-attributes="member: 6701872">On that we will have to disagree, since your argument is likely true given the assumptions you approach the game with despite that it does not at all match the assumptions I approach the game with and thus would not prove true at my table, where 7th level characters would be lucky or specifically plotting to kill specifically a rakshasa, to even manage to scratch the devilish thing.Cool.I see no "over-emphasis." I see only the establishment of what CR means in 5th edition, guidance on how to set up combat encounters that aren't likely to kill your player characters, and constant reminders that the DM not only should, but often has to, tailor things to more specifically fit their group.I find that what it is that does a disservice to new DMs is not in the book, but in unreasonable player expectations of a new DM running a game as well as an experienced DM (and I should not that when I say "player" I am including the one trying to DM too), and in the underestimation of a new DM's intelligence by established DMs along the lines of thinking that a new DM is any more or less likely than an established DM to misread, misunderstand, or apply inappropriate emphasis to any part of the game rules or DMing advice present in the books. , because it makes it seem like it's just a mechanical application, as opposed to being a *very rough* guideline to the approximate strength of the monster. Especially once you get past, say, CR5.</blockquote>[/QUOTE]

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