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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6001463" data-attributes="member: 22779">Well, when you make blanket statements about how the game has changed like this:without knowing the history of the game, it makes your claim rather specious doesn't it?  If you only meant 3e, then you should have said 3e.  Since, other than a fairly small slice of D&D's history, we've actually had explicit monster roles built right into the rules.In 2e, you generally didn't bother, because the upgraded monster was right there.  You want a Goblin Chief, he's a goblin with a bugbear's stats.  Done.  No math, no calculations, nothing.  Sure, you can build whatever monster you want.  But, in doing so, you force DM's to spend HOURS designing a creature that will probably only last four rounds on the table.  No thanks.  There's a reason I won't create anything for 3e anymore and only DM 3e from modules.Yeah, there's a reason I won't do PF as a DM.  They didn't fix my main problem with 3e which was DM workload.  Sorry, if I can't get about a 1:4 ration of prep to play time, I'm not interested in running the game anymore.Blarg.  No thanks.  The "Randomly Pick Opponents and Pray" method of adventure design is not something I have any interest anymore.  If the game designer is that oblivious to what should make a baseline encounter, again, I'm not interested in the game.  I refuse to have entire sessions get flushed down the toilet because the game designer can't properly signpost how stuff should work in play.I'm just not that smart.  Nor do I have the time or the patience to screw around trying to decipher what constitutes an interesting encounter based on an unfamiliar system.</blockquote>

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