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<blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4103427" data-attributes="member: 40961">In my last campaign, I wanted battles against a hobgoblin army.&nbsp; That was the central feature of the campaign.Do you have any idea how many hobgoblins I statted up so that I could create varied encounters without turning the hobgoblin army into a menagerie of wacky beasts?&nbsp; I had regular hobgoblins, hobgoblin rangers, hobgoblin scouts, hobgoblin beast riders, four types of hobgoblin spellcasters, and a sort of hobgoblin &quot;death company&quot; of the biggest and the best, that replaced their regular squad cleric with a squad necromancer.&nbsp; Plus all the leaders and special characters.This was the experience that taught me the value of winging statblocks.&nbsp; What really matters for a mook?&nbsp; AC, HP, Attack, Damage, Saves, Visual Description.&nbsp; If I hadn't run this game, I would probably have been really against the 4e monster changes.I greatly appreciate 4e doing some of the lifting on this sort of thing FOR me, instead of leaving me on my own.&nbsp; They come up with ideas that I do not (picadors? cute!), and they mostly avoid the mistakes I unforgivably make.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cadfan, post: 4103427, member: 40961"] In my last campaign, I wanted battles against a hobgoblin army. That was the central feature of the campaign. Do you have any idea how many hobgoblins I statted up so that I could create varied encounters without turning the hobgoblin army into a menagerie of wacky beasts? I had regular hobgoblins, hobgoblin rangers, hobgoblin scouts, hobgoblin beast riders, four types of hobgoblin spellcasters, and a sort of hobgoblin "death company" of the biggest and the best, that replaced their regular squad cleric with a squad necromancer. Plus all the leaders and special characters. This was the experience that taught me the value of winging statblocks. What really matters for a mook? AC, HP, Attack, Damage, Saves, Visual Description. If I hadn't run this game, I would probably have been really against the 4e monster changes. I greatly appreciate 4e doing some of the lifting on this sort of thing FOR me, instead of leaving me on my own. They come up with ideas that I do not (picadors? cute!), and they mostly avoid the mistakes I unforgivably make. [/QUOTE]

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