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Message: <blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 8260080" data-attributes="member: 3457"><p>I’ve always found Challenge rating to be garbage. Gaaarbaaaahj. One it implies every encounter needs to be balanced to be overcome which gets us into “monsters are there to kill” territory. Two it ruins verisimilitude because players can easily judge how an encounter may go for them knowing a CR 9 creature is supposed to be an average encounter if they are level 9. Three balance was about not letting one person steal the spotlight prior to 3e. It turns D&D into gamist rather than a living world. Not every encounter needs to be a battle. Not every Ettin is evil (this coming from a guy with no problem with evil races as a default because I understand Rule 0).</p></blockquote><p></p>