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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8826391" data-attributes="member: 42582">In 4e D&amp;D, this is what p 42 of the DMG is for.Why does the kobold ability represent training?Big chunks of 4e stat blocks are not intended to represent training. They're there to drive the fiction. Eg Hobgoblins on their own are tough to defeat, but in phalanxes are near-unbreakable: that's a decision about the fiction, not a conjecture about the capabilities of Hobgoblins.You seem the same thing on the player side too. STR paladins have Valiant Strike, ie a bonus to hit when outnumbered by foes. This isn't a prediction about or model of how the paladin fights. It's function is to make paladins valiant, by giving the player a reason to have their paladin PC hurl themselves into the fray.It is these features, on both the player and GM side, that make 4e the most colourful, vivid version of D&amp;D as far as combat is concerned. (It mostly uses different mean out of combat.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8826391, member: 42582"] In 4e D&D, this is what p 42 of the DMG is for. Why does the kobold ability represent training? Big chunks of 4e stat blocks are not intended to represent training. They're there to drive the fiction. Eg Hobgoblins on their own are tough to defeat, but in phalanxes are near-unbreakable: that's a decision about the fiction, not a conjecture about the capabilities of Hobgoblins. You seem the same thing on the player side too. STR paladins have Valiant Strike, ie a bonus to hit when outnumbered by foes. This isn't a prediction about or model of how the paladin fights. It's function is to [I]make paladins valiant[/I], by giving the player a reason to have their paladin PC hurl themselves into the fray. It is these features, on both the player and GM side, that make 4e the most colourful, vivid version of D&D as far as combat is concerned. (It mostly uses different mean out of combat.) [/QUOTE]

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