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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ktulu" data-source="post: 4090541" data-attributes="member: 13465">Interesting.  A lot of the things he found to be lacking are things I've been excited about.  I ran a game tonight (similar to the kobold adventure, but as a full game, not just encounters) with the party getting in different fights & the warlock only used 2 eldritch blasts the whole time, cleric only throwing out a total of 4 lances, and the fighter only brought the cleave twice.  In 3 combats that doesn't seem to me like the players are using the same things over and over.  I don't know what it might be like in an extended dungeon, but fighting 10 kobolds in a dungeon seemed to have them try interesting combinations of attacks, rather than just spewing magic missile.As to the comments on monsters; I can agree with his thoughts, except I didn't ever see much different in 3.x.  The biggest difference is that monsters have specific racial powers which really seems to make them different than others.  Had I run rooms full of the same creatures over and over, though, I could see the tedium building. (though that's what the different monster roles should be for.  The kobold skirmisher & dragonshield soldier sure don't feel like the same creature to me.)Ktulu</blockquote>