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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 6366869" data-attributes="member: 19857">Sure <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=":)" />  But the point is that if you're using a system you've got to roll with the expectation of the system.  If you want to stick a dozen monsters that the PCs are supposed to tear through on the table, then it would be a bad choice to stick a mechanically complex monster on the table.  You should go with the monster that was built to be simple to run for that.With the assumptions of the game in place - that you might have at most 4-5 of these guys out at once, but more typically only a few - the even/odd mechanic isn't bad to track at all.  I've tweaked a few of my 4e encounters to replace rechargable powers with it and it keeps things lively (especially for me as the DM, since it helps me to improvise a bit more with my narration on the battles as different kinds of hits and misses create different opportunities for narrating my own effects).  But yeah - I'd avoid those mechanics if you wanted to run an actual army fighting against the PCs. <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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