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Yes that might be the case, but as DM you have control over when and where to use your monsters. For the short skirmish encounters I will most likely monstly use simple brutes and soldiers, maybe some artillery support, nothing really tactical. For the tactical fights I can of course as a DM go...

As you say, it all depends on your ambitions. Do you intend to publish your own RPG book and make it attractive with a lot of graphics etc. it is not only a lot of work, it is very costly to get the licenses for the graphical content, etc. However, if your ambitions are to only make a nice...

Well it will have an impact when you run the 3+3+3 encounter building as the individual threats are quite small, however we will have to take into account that the damage is most likely not evenly distributed during a battle, some players will take more damage and might still get to the bloodied...

If you are good at Word and Photoshop (or Gimp if you want something free) you do not need InDesign. Of couse if you as in the 5th Edition want books that have tailored graphics for each page you should probably go for InDesign but you can get very far with just Word if you know how to use it...

ENCOUNTER BUILDING I have added some encounter building guidelines into the 4.5 Edition Guideline document. I have also started using this in my own Campaign now, updating the character sheets and mosters to the new rules. What I really like so far is that I have the flexibility to, for example...

I have done some work in Word, but I do not know which 4.5 guide you are referring to

4th Edition Monster XP and Encounter Building I did a small exercise to help those of you that do not want to use my 4.5 Edition but would like to have a new XP curve that better reflect the monsters actual challenge difference towards the party in 4th Edition. The standard deviation is here...

MONSTER DAMAGE Another thing that we needed to change in order to achieve the equal threat level of monsters at all levels was the damage output of the 4.5 Edition monsters. By reducing monster damage during Heroic levels, and then increasing them during Paragon levels, and then even more during...

ENCOUNTER HEALING In order to achieve this flexibility some of the changes I had to do was to try to reduce the amount of healing the party could do during an Encounter. This was achieved by reducing the Healing Surge value to only 1/6th of the character Max HP, and also reducing the effect of...

FLEXIBLE ENCOUNTER BUILDING Another goal was to make 4th Edition to mimic the 5th Edition game play, i.e. turning the 5 encounters per day with 4 short rest (1+1+1+1+1) adventuring day in 4th Edition to the 5th Edition 6 (2+2+2) to 9 (3+3+3) encounters per day with 2 short rests. By doing this...

BALANCE OVER ALL LEVELS Another goal was to try to get rid of the problems encountered in Epic level play of 4th Edition, where DMs was forced to use monster 3 to 8 levels over the party level to really challenge them. As can be seen in the tables below, we have managed to get rid of the 4th...

I have now created a 4th Edition version of the excel sheet in order to more easily compare the two systems. Below I show some of the results of the applied 4.5 Edition changes. COMBAT LENGTH One of the ambitions I had with changing the rules of 4th Edition was to reduce the average length of...

I added some more minor things that I have been including in my own game. I have also started analyzing what the impact would be to step away from the bounded accuracy level progress at Epic level, and there use the normal 4th Edition rules. The idea is to have Epic level play have a different...