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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Infiniti2000" data-source="post: 4807134" data-attributes="member: 31734">This is true, but IMO the biggest design improvement in 4E is greatly reducing the time to build bad guys.  In 3.5, I would spend many hours creating a single bad guy (be it monsters with classes, NPCs, or whatever) only to have them get punked in the first 20 minutes.  That really sucked as DM.  I wasted a whole lot of time.  Now, however, it's way simpler and I spend very little time working on bad guys.  Who cares if they use all their powers or not?  It's no longer a huge waste of my time and if the PCs prevail super easily, more power to them!So, all the conditions on bad guys aren't a concern to me at all.  It's not frustrating and the players certainly help me track them so it's not even that difficult (we also use stackable, color-glass markers from a craft store).Regarding conditions on PCs, yes, there are some debilitating ones but certainly not to the level of previous editions.  What are your options as a fighter if you get power word stunned with not many hit points?  In 4E, at least you get a save and could be given more saves by comrades before you even feel the effect of the stun!  Frankly, even though we're still only playing at low levels in 4E, I don't see a huge problem though we're looking through the rose-colored glasses of previous editions. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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