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<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 6552401" data-attributes="member: 87792"><p>1: The monsters you use are part of your encounters. Which is why going back to the basics and designing your monsters is necessary for many encounters. The only time this isn't the case is if you want all your monsters to be mechanical clones.</p><p></p><p>2: You don't require any formula for picking your monsters from your Monster Manuals in 4e either. There is simply one there. Just as there is in 5e. 4e's is, however, simpler than 5e's. (And the practical 4e one is simpler yet).</p><p></p><p>3: There is the assumption in 4e as well that PCs should sometimes stumble onto things they can't handle. There also was in 3.0 and 3.5. It's simply that when this actually happened in 3.0 in The Forge of Fury the players rioted so WotC stopped doing it in the actual examples they published.</p><p></p><p>4: Every edition of D&D there has ever been has had some sort of monster ranking to tell you what sort of level of PCs it should be used against.</p><p></p><p>So. If you want to use the "Pick some monsters" then 5e is no simpler than 4e. If you want to do anything remotely more complex (such as customise your monsters or try to have any clue in advance of how challenging things will be), 4e is simpler than 5e.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 6552401, member: 87792"] 1: The monsters you use are part of your encounters. Which is why going back to the basics and designing your monsters is necessary for many encounters. The only time this isn't the case is if you want all your monsters to be mechanical clones. 2: You don't require any formula for picking your monsters from your Monster Manuals in 4e either. There is simply one there. Just as there is in 5e. 4e's is, however, simpler than 5e's. (And the practical 4e one is simpler yet). 3: There is the assumption in 4e as well that PCs should sometimes stumble onto things they can't handle. There also was in 3.0 and 3.5. It's simply that when this actually happened in 3.0 in The Forge of Fury the players rioted so WotC stopped doing it in the actual examples they published. 4: Every edition of D&D there has ever been has had some sort of monster ranking to tell you what sort of level of PCs it should be used against. So. If you want to use the "Pick some monsters" then 5e is no simpler than 4e. If you want to do anything remotely more complex (such as customise your monsters or try to have any clue in advance of how challenging things will be), 4e is simpler than 5e. [/QUOTE]
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