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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9091897" data-attributes="member: 7026594">Agreed indeed. This is why I enjoy each edition of D&D for its own virtues.  In the last couple of years I've enjoyed the hell out of and extensively played OD&D, B/X,  5E, and my own Frankensteinian mish-mash of Five Torches Deep and B/X. On reflection I think my two favorite editions are probably B/X (with some light house rules) and 4E*. Though I have a sentimental soft spot for 3.x and I DO someday want to revisit it for an Epic 6 campaign, so I can enjoy the complexity of 3E again without the nightmare trudging-through-quicksand it used to devolve into at high level.(*Perhaps oddly, my early years DMing 4E coincided with my getting into the OSR blog and forum scene, and resulted in the weirdness of me running 4E in a very OD&D-influenced way, with random encounters and procedural dungeon crawling. )This was the one thing that bummed me out about the 4E monster entries, yeah.  I think I found it a little less of a problem in part because of the aforementioned simultaneous digging into the OSR scene I was doing at the time, so I guess I was pretty comfortable patching that on the fly with DM judgements or assigning necessary abilities at the scenario design stage.</blockquote>