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<blockquote data-quote="machineelf" data-source="post: 7013385" data-attributes="member: 6774924"><p>To each their own, but no. I like 5e monsters better. You have to keep in mind 4e was operating on a tank, dps, healer, controller model. They were trying to take world of Warcraft and put it into a table top rpg.</p><p></p><p>It lost the true D&D feel for me. Was it fun to play as a tactical grid-based combat game. Sure, sometimes. But for me it lost the organic, versimilitude that makes a D&D game immersive.</p><p></p><p>5e monsters still have a lot of interesting features. I will take lair actions plus legendary actions plus their unique traits over the tank/healer/dps grid-based gimmickry any day.</p><p></p><p>If you want the ancient red Dragon to do more than just breathe fire, how about you let it beat its wings to make wind to knock characters down prone just before it bites and claws them, or scorches them? What If you let it cause firery hot magma burst up from under their feet, or let hot poisonous gases form around them to debilitate them? Or earth tremors to throw them off their feet?</p><p></p><p>Those would be cool features to add right? Wait, the 5e ancient red Dragon already can do all of that. </p><p></p><p>Sent from my VS990 using Tapatalk</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="machineelf, post: 7013385, member: 6774924"] To each their own, but no. I like 5e monsters better. You have to keep in mind 4e was operating on a tank, dps, healer, controller model. They were trying to take world of Warcraft and put it into a table top rpg. It lost the true D&D feel for me. Was it fun to play as a tactical grid-based combat game. Sure, sometimes. But for me it lost the organic, versimilitude that makes a D&D game immersive. 5e monsters still have a lot of interesting features. I will take lair actions plus legendary actions plus their unique traits over the tank/healer/dps grid-based gimmickry any day. If you want the ancient red Dragon to do more than just breathe fire, how about you let it beat its wings to make wind to knock characters down prone just before it bites and claws them, or scorches them? What If you let it cause firery hot magma burst up from under their feet, or let hot poisonous gases form around them to debilitate them? Or earth tremors to throw them off their feet? Those would be cool features to add right? Wait, the 5e ancient red Dragon already can do all of that. Sent from my VS990 using Tapatalk [/QUOTE]
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