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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 7784900" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>There are whole bunch more bestiary pages posted <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6sgsf?Mastering-Pathfinder" target="_blank">on the paizo blog</a>.</p><p></p><p>I can now with a whole lot of confidence say "these guys are not trying to be 4e." Why am I so confident? Scroll down to the page that has the Lillend and look at that stat block. That's a 3e stat block (one could argue for a 5e stat block I suppose, but it looks extremely 3e to me). What makes it a 3e stat block and not a 4e stat block? The monstrosity that is "a list of spells embedded into the block of a monster with no rules text" - one of the things that makes a 4e stat block a 4e stat block is that it doesn't have that. It's core to the design of 4e stat blocks that you just don't do that.</p><p></p><p>That's a 3e stat block that's been organized with a different flow and a few icons attached to various powers. As someone who DM'd 4e for years and now DMs 5e but continues to DM the odd Gamma World game as a one-off to keep my hand in, it's night and day in how the stat blocks are used. I couldn't run a PF2 game the way I run a 4e/GW game - just for starters it looks like it would require the same amount of prep that a 3e or 5e game does, which is a lot more for me than any of my 4e sessions require.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 7784900, member: 19857"] There are whole bunch more bestiary pages posted [URL="https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6sgsf?Mastering-Pathfinder"]on the paizo blog[/URL]. I can now with a whole lot of confidence say "these guys are not trying to be 4e." Why am I so confident? Scroll down to the page that has the Lillend and look at that stat block. That's a 3e stat block (one could argue for a 5e stat block I suppose, but it looks extremely 3e to me). What makes it a 3e stat block and not a 4e stat block? The monstrosity that is "a list of spells embedded into the block of a monster with no rules text" - one of the things that makes a 4e stat block a 4e stat block is that it doesn't have that. It's core to the design of 4e stat blocks that you just don't do that. That's a 3e stat block that's been organized with a different flow and a few icons attached to various powers. As someone who DM'd 4e for years and now DMs 5e but continues to DM the odd Gamma World game as a one-off to keep my hand in, it's night and day in how the stat blocks are used. I couldn't run a PF2 game the way I run a 4e/GW game - just for starters it looks like it would require the same amount of prep that a 3e or 5e game does, which is a lot more for me than any of my 4e sessions require. [/QUOTE]
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