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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5087299" data-attributes="member: 82106">Hobgoblin Resistance is actually pretty interesting for hobs. Since most hobs naturally are designed to bunch up and fight in formations this power gives them a way to do so without getting murdered with AoE daily effects. If you take it away then their phalanx abilities become basically useless and you just have a monster with nothing special about it at all.Yes, HR will sometimes degrade a daily effect considerably. However hobs really are 'grunt' type monsters that are intended to present more of a resource management challenge to the PCs than anything else. They're going to beat them and most often they appear as an auxiliary to another more threatening monster that is going to be the focus of daily spell use.Besides, plenty of daily spells work fine on hobs, you just have to pick the right one to use. I ran a whole story arc with hobs as antagonists and they worked fine with a party in the range of 4th-6th level. After the first encounter the PCs adjusted tactics and didn't use save ends effects against them. There were always some other monsters around like bugbears or a dragon, etc that was a fine target for those spells, or else the encounter didn't really warrant using the best dailies anyway.tl;dr HR meshes well with hobgoblins tactics and makes them viable. It isn't a problem.</blockquote>