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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9790114" data-attributes="member: 6877472">Uh, ok.&nbsp; Go through the Monster Manual again.&nbsp; Note how many monsters are presented with spellcasting.&nbsp; Let me reiterate the point I am making.Imagine this mysterious creature, the Novice DM.&nbsp; He's got the core books, he's ready to start running adventures for his friends!&nbsp; The books tell him that it's important to have a certain amount of encounters per adventuring &quot;day&quot;, ie, between Long Rests.&nbsp; He may discover the price of having a &quot;day&quot; with fewer encounters, or one large encounter on his own.Eventually, his players start using tactics given to them by the game itself, to ensure that if they want to rest, they can.&nbsp; This might cause a problem.&nbsp; He goes online to search for answers.He is told: &quot;oh yeah, make sure you use more creatures that can cast Dispel Magic, including NPC's, and make sure you create variant spellcasting versions of monsters you want to use&quot;.The game did not tell him to do this.&nbsp; It didn't even suggest it, really.&nbsp; He is forced to go out of his way to solve a problem that came packaged with the game itself.Is it really a stretch to say &quot;man, I don't think the game should be forcing the DM to do that&quot;?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 9790114, member: 6877472"] Uh, ok. Go through the Monster Manual again. Note how many monsters are presented with spellcasting. Let me reiterate the point I am making. Imagine this mysterious creature, the Novice DM. He's got the core books, he's ready to start running adventures for his friends! The books tell him that it's important to have a certain amount of encounters per adventuring "day", ie, between Long Rests. He may discover the price of having a "day" with fewer encounters, or one large encounter on his own. Eventually, his players start using tactics [I]given to them by the game itself[/I], to ensure that if they want to rest, they can. This might cause a problem. He goes online to search for answers. He is told: "oh yeah, make sure you use more creatures that can cast Dispel Magic, including NPC's, and make sure you create variant spellcasting versions of monsters you want to use". The [B]game[/B] did not tell him to do this. It didn't even suggest it, really. He is forced to go out of his way to solve a problem that came packaged with the game itself. Is it really a stretch to say "man, I don't think the game should be forcing the DM to do that"? [/QUOTE]

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