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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 1575125" data-attributes="member: 172">This relates to a discussion we are having on the Necro Games boards right now. I think the argument that it was somehow better then because stat blocks were simpler is way off. Thats a bug, not a feature AFAIAC.I almost didn't adapt 3e when it came out. What sold me about 3e was the MM. To wit, that they actually had full and robust statistics for monsters. That you could craft and expand them without ad hoccing.Creating complex villains was not made easier by 1e. You just didn't make them. You went without.Stat blocks being more complete is a good thing.Um, practice what you preach. If I don't like a prestige class, I don't use it.Just why wouldn't an intelligent monster have them?I'm eager to hear it. The only one I can fairly think of is the primitive state of RPGs as a more immediate descendant of wargames where monsters were literally just meant to be hacked up.As the games being played evolved, DMs started to see the need for more complex villains, but the system as it was presented didn't support that. So the needs of the players drove the game. That's why we have more robust stat blocks today: because we wanted/needed them.</blockquote>