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Message: <blockquote data-quote="D'karr" data-source="post: 5636906" data-attributes="member: 336">Plopping a monster into an encounter is not the end of the preparation.If that monster had any spells, or spell like abilities preparation time also "required" the DM to have familiarity with those abilities.  If he wanted to do a halfway decent job.  The DM either needed to know the spells/abilites and how it worked, or had to go look it up.  If he did this during prep time then that extended that time significantly.  If he did this during run time, then that impacted the combat speed, as well as how satisfactorily that encounter turned out.  As the creatures became more complicated with more spells/spell like abilities the prep time was significantly increased.I ran 3.0/3.5 from 2000 until earlier this year.  Towards the end of the campaign, I loathed preparation time.  So no, not a good comparison.</blockquote>