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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 5216934" data-attributes="member: 40177">I remember mearls' quote.  At the time, I liked the general gist of what he was saying, but the implementation was not something I was fond of.  If memory serves, it was sort of like "Why should cold-based monsters be resistant towards cold?  After all, they have a bunch of cold attacks, so does that mean they can't hunt other arctic monsters resistant to cold?"It was a decent enough argument, but I remember his original implementation was a bit spotty (and had a series of arguments on these boards).  However, this whole "we both get hurt" thing is kind of cool.I do wonder what happens when parties with a lot of resistances fight these monsters, though.  I can see that dragonborn build that regains his breath weapon when hit by a certain energy type LOVING these sort of encounters.  So, who thought about the original Needlefang Drake Swarm?  Or the nigh impossible to hit Soldier Monsters?  or the....Ha ha.  Just teasing you.  But I have a feeling you've opened a can of worms, there.  <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=":)" />  Us fans have to defend the Onetrueversion of the game from you designing interloper folk!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  Seriously, though, the wotc guys that come here do unfortunately get hit by a lot of flak from time to time (and, I must admit, I've been guilty of it myself, once or twice) - simply because of who they work for.  The funny thing is, it's only the wotc guys... I've never seen a bunch of fans team up against Paizo, for example.  I'm sure there's a reason for it.  I think a lot of people have, at this point, forgotten just awful TSR was on the internet.</blockquote>

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