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<blockquote data-quote="DDogwood" data-source="post: 5786155" data-attributes="member: 73527">4e is a lot easier on the DM than PF, definitely. Paizo helps a lot with the adventure paths, but you still need to know or look up lots of feats and spells for the more complex monsters and NPCs. You are also a lot more likely to have an important NPC die in an anticlimactic fight. If you're running both anyway, I think there are some ways you can port the best aspects of both into the other game. Unimportant fights in 4e can use lots of minions, and they'll go by much, much faster. You can also use &quot;minions plus&quot;, minions who take 2 hits or 1 crit to kill, making blast/burst powers a little less dominant. In PF, you can port many 4e monsters over with very little effort. Basically, give them a CMD, modify the attacks that don't target AC, and convert their non-AC defenses into save bonuses, and you've got a monster that should give a much more interesting fight with less effort than a similar PF monster (I'd only do this for an important combat, though - otherwise you risk slowing things down too much).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DDogwood, post: 5786155, member: 73527"] 4e is a lot easier on the DM than PF, definitely. Paizo helps a lot with the adventure paths, but you still need to know or look up lots of feats and spells for the more complex monsters and NPCs. You are also a lot more likely to have an important NPC die in an anticlimactic fight. If you're running both anyway, I think there are some ways you can port the best aspects of both into the other game. Unimportant fights in 4e can use lots of minions, and they'll go by much, much faster. You can also use "minions plus", minions who take 2 hits or 1 crit to kill, making blast/burst powers a little less dominant. In PF, you can port many 4e monsters over with very little effort. Basically, give them a CMD, modify the attacks that don't target AC, and convert their non-AC defenses into save bonuses, and you've got a monster that should give a much more interesting fight with less effort than a similar PF monster (I'd only do this for an important combat, though - otherwise you risk slowing things down too much). [/QUOTE]

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