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<blockquote data-quote="Eric V" data-source="post: 7215660" data-attributes="member: 6779717">Come on.&nbsp; I did use the word 'tangibly.'&nbsp; There is no in-game effect she has for her troops, unlike a lot of other military leader types in the MM and VGTM.&nbsp; If they had just described her as a brute or shock trooper in this edition, it would be much less of an issue.Oh and spare me the INT score argument.&nbsp; WotC themselves admit it has no effect on CR unless it increases damage somehow.&nbsp; I call bull on anyone who claims they know how to properly differentiate tactics between a 14 INT creature and a 17 INT creature; usually such people have an over-inflated sense of their own INT score...The sales prove that having over-simplified monsters and CR guidelines that don't really work was a good move?&nbsp; Come on, man, there's some serious logic issues with that.&nbsp; I tend to think 5e is doing really well for lots of other reasons myself; making monsters into bag-o-hp and not providing all the relevant info in their stat blocks (a nightmare editing issue for spell-using monsters) are not amongst them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eric V, post: 7215660, member: 6779717"] Come on. I did use the word 'tangibly.' There is [I]no [/I]in-game effect she has for her troops, unlike a lot of other military leader types in the MM and VGTM. If they had just described her as a brute or shock trooper in this edition, it would be much less of an issue. Oh and spare me the INT score argument. WotC themselves admit it has no effect on CR unless it increases damage somehow. I call bull on anyone who claims they know how to properly differentiate tactics between a 14 INT creature and a 17 INT creature; usually such people have an over-inflated sense of their [I]own [/I]INT score... The sales [I]prove [/I]that having over-simplified monsters and CR guidelines that don't really work was a good move? Come on, man, there's some serious logic issues with that. I tend to think 5e is doing really well for lots of other reasons myself; making monsters into bag-o-hp and not providing all the relevant info in their stat blocks (a nightmare editing issue for spell-using monsters) are not amongst them. [/QUOTE]

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