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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JoeGKushner" data-source="post: 4495668" data-attributes="member: 1129">One of the things I see some people noting about 4e is that it simply has less starting content based on the four core books.Having done some work on just doing a conversion of an adventure, I'm forced to agree as elementals, metallic dragons, animated objects, and a host of other utility monsters are just plain out missing. It's like they said, "Hell, for levels 1-3, it's just gobos, kobods and some other minor beasties."  This is despite the reduced word count needed on these monsters.The DMG is massively shrunk from it's previous edition.  Ditto for the Monster Manual. It's just smaller.The Forgotten Realms book is far far far smaller in terms of text per page and layout styling result in a book that probably cost two to three times per word as the old one.Now if I'm wrong and it can be proven I'm wrong, I'll admit it. Having done some page comparrissions between the two FR books though... unless there is some real layout magic going on elsewhere, I'm not wrong. Mind you I don't think it's a fatal flaw for the game and I'm enjoying running it, but sometimes you look around and see the defiance of the factual statement that 4e has less material than 3e in terms of core product and well, like being baqffled that people can't role play in 4e, I am once again baffled.</blockquote>