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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 3763530" data-attributes="member: 5143">Extremely often?  I don't know about that.  I played in weekly campaign for almost every week since about 1993(2 weekly campaigns for a number of those years), and I've been a Triad member for Living Greyhawk for 2 years and played in LG for 6 years.  I can fairly certainly say that the number of times that I've need to know those things has been maybe...2 or 3 times.  We did all play monsters during one campaign, but the only reason we did so is because Savage Species came out and we wanted to try it out.Besides, none of that really matters, they've said that creatures have ALL of that information.The difference between player characters and monsters(from everything I've read) is that a player race will say:+2 strength, -2 con.  At 5th level they get Super Luck, and 10th level they can choose to be able to jump really high or turn into a frog.monsters will say:Goblin ClubfighterLevel 10 Monsterxp: 570Str 26, Dex 14, Con 16, Int 15, Wis 12Attacks: +14 (Club) 1d6+8HP: 258Saves: 20 Ref, 15 Fort, 17 WillSkills: +14 Diplomacy, +12 Tumble, +3 Craft, +10 ConcentrationSpecial Abilities:Hit Hard With Club (Ex): Once per combat, he can spend a swift action to do an extra 2d6 damage with his club.Low Light Vision (Ex)Does that mean that Goblins have +15 strength?  Nope, just that this one has that strength.  Does that mean that all goblins can Hit Hard With Club?  Nope, this one can though.  You can run this monster through virtually any situation you want.  Although, you can't figure out HOW it got 258 hitpoints or how it got +14 to hit.  It just does, since it is a level 10 monster designed to be a brute, and it needs about +14 to hit so that it can hit level 10 PCs on average 60% of the time.  It has 258 hit points so that it can survive about 5 rounds of attacks since the average striker at 10th level does 50 damage.Does it compare directly to the players?  Nope.  It likely has WAY more hit points and some of its abiltiies will be extremely powerful for a 10th level character.  Nor does it give you enough information to make a character out of the monster, but you still have all the same stats as a character.</blockquote>

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