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I don't think any such rule is necessary. If you are setting up encounters where the pcs might be sneaking in you can decide at any moment weather the monster should drop in one hit or spin around ninja style and stick it to the thief. The HP totals are there to balance combat. If combat is...

if I wanted to read I wouldn't be on the internets! I came here to pontificate pointlessly and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of bubble gum.

Just looks like the pre edition change lull.

Tell that to my group. Dang wizard got an acid arrow on the big baddie wizard and 3 archers around him. I had to fudge his hp a few points or he would have dropped from the continuing damage before he got to cast a single spell. I think folks are used to wizzies having more buttons to hit...

Yep only a ranger can hold a bow. We know for a fact that each class can only do one thing and multi classing is impossible. Might as well give up now.

Vanguard man.. my heart goes out to you and your family. But back on topic, healing surges: A wizard did it.

If it was realistic 90% of adventurers would die of septic shock within a week of adventuring from having all those dirty kobold daggers stabbed in em. The only problem I see here is a lack of imagination. Say one of my pcs jump off a low ledge to escape a rolling boulder and fail a throw to...

Yeah, they sound like junkies. Really this game is like Grand Theft Auto. You beat up weaker folks and take the stuff that falls out of em. Authority figures tell you to get the mcguffin and you do. You play dress up. If only 4th edition had bicycle practice and a great 80s soundtrack.

All I know is my players loved em because they got to do some mass carnage now and then rather than whittling hp and I loved them because I could throw a mob at them without tracking hp on all them or worrying that the PCs will get killed by 'mooks'.

Monsters and PCs also both have hit points. Oh noes!

I always thought of myself as CG, but maybe I am just a jerk? I love that they are tieing things less rigidly to the alignment system. The old system was very 'designed by nerds' it made concrete sense like a math problem. Real life and human morality is a lot more complex and that complexity...

The feywild is not described as being a 1 to 1 parallel universe (if it was that would not be super fun) it 'reflects' the world which gives the DM plenty of space to make it an interesting reflection of the world when he wants and completely different when he doesn't. For me I would guess Cold...

Exactly, it's dead dead dead, dead as a doornail dead. Now let me go preorder another 100$ worth of books.

Wierd thing is most of these are obviously directly based on the art in the 'Worlds and Monsters' book and I would assume MM which do not look bad as drawings. I have a lot of minis from harbringer on and the bummer thing is they had gotten much better over time but this set seems like a step...

Yeah PCs suck! DMs RULE PCs DROOL!!!!!

Everyone has a 50% chance to hit anything. Problem solved. Oh you wanted to have fun? Buck up and remember your powers folks.

I'd check it out until my preorder arrives. But then I'd beat myself with a car antenna so it all balances out right?

I will house rule Pimps Up Hos Down, unless wizards comes to their senses and make it core.

But if you really want to be different don't you have just as much choice as in 3rd to not take the optimal mathematical option? Except that since the numbers are more shallowly curved the difference in outcome should be less noticeable although the only way to find that out is to playtest some...

You don't have to set up the encounter with just the big guy, in fact it is assumed you wont. Throw in a few low level devil artillery he keeps around just to use as hand grenades. Not to mention if one of your lieutenants is failing badly teleport him into the middle of the part and blow him...