Cleveland Mark Blakemore
Golden Era Games
It appears that the game has some kind of level/ability score scaling.
I used editor to give my party member high stats (for testing) and enemies I encountered were much much tougher compared to what I normally encountered playing with test party.
The gauging of your victories drives up the percentage of bumping into monsters and ranks normally only encountered very rarely.
Being indentified as a bad-ass and being attacked by tougher monsters to match your reputation is not scaling so technically have adhered to the letter of the law.