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<blockquote data-quote="Chibbot" data-source="post: 4159497" data-attributes="member: 63856">I think thats part of it, but in large part is also just a larger focus on dynamic and tactical combats.Yes, the hook horror could just lob you into a pool of lava. But if there isn't a pool of lava around (in the 7ish years that I've been playing DnD, only once has there been a convenient pool of lava nearby, and that was in a specially requested hill-giants-on-a-rickety-bridge-over-a-volcano encounter at a slow point in the Eberron game I'm currently playing in), the hook horror can still lob you to places you don't want to go. Perhaps he's teaming up with several melee beasts ('brutes' in the 4e lingo?) who happen to be slower than he, so he runs forward and tosses people backwards into these guys.Or, to have an even more diverse battlefield, say you have the hook horror, 3 glass cannons (or, glass lightsabers perhaps, tons of melee damage but go down in a stiff breeze), and a handful of tower-shield-and-longspear-wielding soldiers. I can already picture the fight in my head (and its pretty sweet, and devastating), and the terrain is potentially irrelevant.[code]&nbsp;P&nbsp; P P&nbsp;&nbsp; |&nbsp;&nbsp; P&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; V&nbsp; &nbsp; H P&nbsp; &nbsp; ^&nbsp; S&nbsp; S&nbsp; S&nbsp; S|&nbsp;&nbsp; C&nbsp; [COLOR=DarkRed]X[/COLOR]&nbsp; C|&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; C[/code]Forgive the lame diagram. =) But imagine the hook horror (H) lobbing a PC (P) to X? That would be quite brutal.(for reference, I don't actually know if you can throw people over other people, but situations like this have come up in the previously mentioned Eberron game, with the swordsage class.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chibbot, post: 4159497, member: 63856"] I think thats part of it, but in large part is also just a larger focus on dynamic and tactical combats. Yes, the hook horror could just lob you into a pool of lava. But if there isn't a pool of lava around (in the 7ish years that I've been playing DnD, only once has there been a convenient pool of lava nearby, and that was in a specially requested hill-giants-on-a-rickety-bridge-over-a-volcano encounter at a slow point in the Eberron game I'm currently playing in), the hook horror can still lob you to places you don't want to go. Perhaps he's teaming up with several melee beasts ('brutes' in the 4e lingo?) who happen to be slower than he, so he runs forward and tosses people backwards into these guys. Or, to have an even more diverse battlefield, say you have the hook horror, 3 glass cannons (or, glass lightsabers perhaps, tons of melee damage but go down in a stiff breeze), and a handful of tower-shield-and-longspear-wielding soldiers. I can already picture the fight in my head (and its pretty sweet, and devastating), and the terrain is potentially irrelevant. [code] P P P | P V H P ^ S S S S | C [COLOR=DarkRed]X[/COLOR] C | C[/code] Forgive the lame diagram. =) But imagine the hook horror (H) lobbing a PC (P) to X? That would be quite brutal. (for reference, I don't actually know if you can throw people over other people, but situations like this have come up in the previously mentioned Eberron game, with the swordsage class.) [/QUOTE]

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