Thats what happens when you make your Level 1 characters already demi-gods by level 5 and throw in all kinds of D&D high level creatures in act 1 and 2. By act 3 and level 10 the characters feel more like level 18 but the same kind of creatures remain.
Its the typical and much discussed Larian "throw everything but the kitchen sink" at the player in the beginning...Dragons, beholders, flying to other dimensions, the Underdark, level 1 clerics of Shaar, vampire spawn etc...

The only way to quickly balance things is with overpowered gear and inflate stats instead of changing level/creature/area design.

Reminds me of 12 year old kids at the DM table who make their first ever characters. They want everything and go everywhere!! Because, well, its more fun!
Why I don't play D&D with kids anymore. Thanks having rules, Its just so much more fun ironically.

Last edited by Count Turnipsome; 10/09/23 01:10 AM.
It just reminded me of the bowl of goat's milk that old Winthrop used to put outside his door every evening for the dust demons. He said the dust demons could never resist goat's milk, and that they would always drink themselves into a stupor and then be too tired to enter his room..