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If I want a horde of lower level monsters I jut use mobs. I think its a better solution. At least it is for me.

Just wanted to point out is that this is because D&D adopts a linear(/quadratic) rather than exponential power curve. This puts the 10th...

The 4e minion rules literally say that they are for use when the DM wants to throw a lot of monsters at the PCs without it becoming a...

Disagree. Toughness and resilience are very real things, and hit points are their abstraction. A typical horse has more toughness and...

As perceived, sure. But perception isn't what matters here. In reality that cat (let's assume the 3-year-old and the 15-year old are...

Doing the "well" is a matter of preference and opinion. We can be objective about certain things like how detailed or abstract rules...

It's worked well enough for tens of millions of people over the past half century. There are plenty of options for people that want...

Changing rule paradigm, I can sort of get abord with. Changing stat block for the same creature however should be completely...

Right, because it's a narrative device. This is what some folks have a problem with.

If I want to simulate movie logic for a heist like Oceans 11, I think BitD likely works better. That game is not trying to be a sim in...

If I'm playing, say Horizon Forbidden West, when you start you're fighting monsters like burrowers. As you level up, for a while the...

You start off really well. CR is inherently flawed because a monster is going to be easy against some groups of its CR and hard against...

Tell that to the goose that I grabbed by the neck at 4 and dragged back to my family to show. Apparently it was a mean one Mr. Grinch...

Add to that the Narrativist perspective of skill challenges and other 4e elements and you have a game that feels very different from...

But it kind of is using the same monster, just with 1 HP and higher AC, attack bonus and damage. I understand what they were trying to...