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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 6054741" data-attributes="member: 20323">I think for many monsters all you really need is a cheat sheet from SlyFlourish or my own...once you have a feel for power riders appropriate to the level you don't need much else (for minions this is especially true). I'd say the one exception , as [MENTION=59411]Pour[/MENTION] points out, are solos. IMO those do benefit from quite a bit of advanced prep, and probably merit stat blocks 2-3x as long as the ones provided in the various MM//MVs (whether you divide those into bloodied/unbloodied, three stages, various body parts, or something else is up you as the DM).The one place I'm not wholly happy with 4e monster design is with NPCs. The official way to design them is to select powers from the corresponding class, and I find that can be too time-consuming using multiple books/DDi and too limited sticking to just one or two books. A few extra pages in a DMG devoted to a quick NPC stat/power creation chart would do much to resolve this issue.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 6054741, member: 20323"] I think for many monsters all you really need is a cheat sheet from SlyFlourish or my own...once you have a feel for power riders appropriate to the level you don't need much else (for minions this is especially true). I'd say the one exception , as [MENTION=59411]Pour[/MENTION] points out, are solos. IMO those do benefit from quite a bit of advanced prep, and probably merit stat blocks 2-3x as long as the ones provided in the various MM//MVs (whether you divide those into bloodied/unbloodied, three stages, various body parts, or something else is up you as the DM). The one place I'm not wholly happy with 4e monster design is with NPCs. The official way to design them is to select powers from the corresponding class, and I find that can be too time-consuming using multiple books/DDi and too limited sticking to just one or two books. A few extra pages in a DMG devoted to a quick NPC stat/power creation chart would do much to resolve this issue. [/QUOTE]

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