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I'm good with that; houseruled!

Why can't it just be straight "On a miss"? Also, is there anything in a bestiary that can give AC boost?

Well, right; I was just using a concrete example to drive it home in my mind, but also toss it out there to see if someone else out there had seen something that countered/nulled it. If it would work with disadvantage, that would at least be SOMETHING.

So here is a thing I need some group think on. I made this fighter: His strength is derived from 15 (base) +2 (human) +1 (fighter). His 10+ on the dice would be a minimum 17. I cannot find anything in the bestiary that he can't hit on a 10 (The Dark Acolyte has a 17, and it seems the...

There was actually an at will knockdown for the fighter; the trade off in damage, though, has made it very seldom worth it IME.

I'm just having a hard time understanding your point, I guess. I haven't really seen any games at all where monsters or NPCs are made with any kind of conflict to their flavor; it seems like your concern is less about the presence and intention of flavor and more of how it is used by designers...

Right, but are there any actual examples of systems that create monsters without any kind of flavor?

Okay, right, but - All Monsters are based on flavor. All Monsters are based off of how they interact with the party (These guys rust your metal weapons and eat them!) All Monsters have their stats based off of their perceived nature. What is the difference in, say, 4e and 2e monster...

But aren't these DM aspects? I mean, the DM is the one that builds the world. In 3e I can have a bunch of commoners roving around acting like wolves for literally no reason. In 4e I can have the same. Or am I missing something?

Instead of using a minion, try to use the Sidhe Lord paragon path (reskinned as needed). You get a daily summoning of a soldier "Pet" that you can buff to kingdom come

That's how I have run my game until recently, and I can say - it does. I am thinking more of the 75% HP + 25% damage.

I kind of wonder if the early 4e books were so "Lore-Light" because of the bad reaction to the idea of stipulating lore, and the amount of new mechanics that had to be covered? I know when I was reading them, I was basically just reading them to build characters, since I was "bringing with me"...

I'm really not a fan of the super-broad fighter; I feel like it has stopped the class from developing a good niche in the past. I feel like one class, one idea, one execution. There should be an archer and a swashbuckler; but they shouldn't be "fighters" unless fighter is an archtype (class?)...

What's very interesting to me is that I interface with the books in a totally different way. I want super plain writing in the core books, at least in the front of each section (class summaries, race summaries, etc). The one page "Here are the stats, here are some tropes to play with" is...

I agree; if you have to errata something, don't give us choices to make, plug it in to the core system.

For me, arbitrary number bonuses. Priest's shield gives +1 to AC; not a fan. Priest shield gives partial cover? Sure! Ongoing 5 fire damage? Blech. "Engulfed" that does 5 damage per tier? Awesome! Ongoing poison damage? Poisoned! -2 penalty to ac? Why not grants combat advantage; or, if...

Actually, my post that I began this thread in was a bullet point list of the stuff that I had questions or lacked clarity on -after- that line by line thing. And we actually have spent a few posts just exploring one detail that I was unclear about, that has had about a dozen perfectly viable...

Indeed; that is something I mentioned in an earlier post (but after the one your are quoting). This is especially true in areas where you don't want a person taking information with them. Somebody else said it could have been a six month contract, that then Monte didn't want to renew; that...

Working on a non-D&D product is also a viable explanation. Again, I am not saying that Monte did not give 2 weeks notice. What I am saying is that I do not have enough information to assume I know what is going on. One thing I do want to point out is that you suggest that it was probably...

Here is why I am unclear on the notice thing. He says that he decided to leave his position at WotC last week. He is now no longer working for them. That doesn't mean that he failed to give 2 weeks notice; it could be that he did, but they decided to pull the bandaid. Or it was at a break in...