Why was the Dungeon of Dorukan so easy?

[KorvinStarmast]

And one of those silly rules or tropes in D&D is that if a party of adventurers runs into a group of monsters, it's somehow a "level-appropriate encounter". Even if logically it makes little sense.

Heh, in old school D&D one learned that "the party that fights and runs away may live to fight another day" ... but I digress.

For an undead and a person with a Major Artifact that slows aging down to a crawl, a timesink is a remarkably poor defense.

Looks like Xykon and RC are doing an epic version of Take 20 at Monster Hollow ...

Xykon is just all out of proportion to the normal world's threats.

Yes. And even he's a chump compared to the Snarl being let loose.

Knowledge that a vampire can exist is certainly different than knowledge of how a vampire works, for example.

Same with Dark Matter.