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<blockquote data-quote="Iosue" data-source="post: 6103478" data-attributes="member: 6680772">While as a DM I prefer the short, succinct monster entries and statblocks of BXCMI to the longer ones in 2e or 4e, as I player I'm afraid I don't share your experience.&nbsp; I've long internalized the Classic D&amp;D monsters, so they don't have that same mysterious feel they had when I first played.&nbsp; OTOH, I don't have 4e monsters nearly so down pat, so when my 4e DM drops down a mini, even of a monster I'm more or less familiar with, I have very little idea what they can and will do, so there's quite a bit of anticipation and anxiety.&nbsp; One group I play tends to almost immediately puncture this feeling by rolling knowledge checks as a group, and the DM then reads off Lore and even powers based on how good the highest roll is.&nbsp; But another group I play with occasionally doesn't do this, so I don't know what abilities the monster has until it uses them on me (or preferably someone else!).I have no doubt for players who are just starting out with Pathfinder or 4e the monsters are just as full of deadly mystery.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Iosue, post: 6103478, member: 6680772"] While as a DM I prefer the short, succinct monster entries and statblocks of BXCMI to the longer ones in 2e or 4e, as I player I'm afraid I don't share your experience. I've long internalized the Classic D&D monsters, so they don't have that same mysterious feel they had when I first played. OTOH, I don't have 4e monsters nearly so down pat, so when my 4e DM drops down a mini, even of a monster I'm more or less familiar with, I have very little idea what they can and will do, so there's quite a bit of anticipation and anxiety. One group I play tends to almost immediately puncture this feeling by rolling knowledge checks as a group, and the DM then reads off Lore and even powers based on how good the highest roll is. But another group I play with occasionally doesn't do this, so I don't know what abilities the monster has until it uses them on me (or preferably someone else!). I have no doubt for players who are just starting out with Pathfinder or 4e the monsters are just as full of deadly mystery. [/QUOTE]

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