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I've occasionally had campaign arcs (in multiple editions) where relatively low level monsters get juiced up and go berserk. They have a...

I wouldn't know, as I didn't buy any 3.5 stuff (I already had 3e). Interesting to see that, though. I'll have to borrow a friend's...

Fair enough. Personally I tend to give "Rule of Cool" a lot less credit in games than I do in stories.

Perhaps, but keeping those inconstencies down to a dull roar is still IMO a worthy goal to strive for. :) It varies. Some parties IME...

Make sense. But you are not as opposed to the minion approach if it doesn't mean the stats of the monster change depending on who is...

Which is kind of the point: the hobbits - particularly in LotR - are the zero-to-hero people we follow all the way through, and on their...

For some reason. I really don't see why that kind of consistency is important to the IP holder. We all play our own games.

It happened in the 1e MM with liches being magic users or clerics. Couatls are magic users, clerics or both. Vampires in the 1e MM...

To answer the OP. People have certain preferences, and like to stick with them. Maybe they aren't necessarily resistant to change, but...

I do think at High levels Characters need to feel like they can do things no one else can. Mythical magic Items special powers being...

Didn't 3e have something similar, where if you didn't have ranks in a skill you couldn't even try to use that skill?

I think this is the root of the problem: it's a faulty design goal. Instead, the goal should have been to just design the monsters and...

I agree that something has to give. Like either tske a completely different approach to the entire game or get rid of minions.

You see a feature where I see a bug. "Contextual challenges" do two bad things: they play hell with in-fiction consistency, and they...

This might be. But the issue is that entering this gap is not so easy as this has been a very polarizing issue. The entire rulings over...