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<blockquote data-quote="Red Castle" data-source="post: 9230925" data-attributes="member: 7040765">Monster design in 4e was for me a revelation.Not only were they easy to build an encounter with thanks to monsters having level for balance (with the ability to easily change their level if you need to) and roles and types to ensure diversity in the encounters, but more importantly, they were easy to use.Everything you needed during a combat was in the stat block, and it could fit on a card if you wanted to. All their defenses, special abilities, rules, different attacks were there. You didn’t have to look through the spellbook to either read their ability or create their pool of spell. I remember back in 2nd ed trying to avoid monsters with spells because I didn’t want to look through the list. No, everything you might need was there.But what about non combat spells? If the lich is a spellcaster, surely it should have non combat spells. To which I answer, why limit yourself to what is written in the books? If the lich is your BBEG and you need it to have a spell to create a portal, then just give it to it. You want the lich to have charmed and entire village? Just do it. You are the DM, it’s your world, your playground so do what you want if you think it would be cool! Like pretty much anything roleplay, you don’t need rules, you don’t need anything written in a book, your imagination is your limit! But X creature should never be able to do Y! Why? Why should it not? It could even create a nice hook to learn why it actually can.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Red Castle, post: 9230925, member: 7040765"] Monster design in 4e was for me a revelation. Not only were they easy to build an encounter with thanks to monsters having level for balance (with the ability to easily change their level if you need to) and roles and types to ensure diversity in the encounters, but more importantly, they were easy to use. Everything you needed during a combat was in the stat block, and it could fit on a card if you wanted to. All their defenses, special abilities, rules, different attacks were there. You didn’t have to look through the spellbook to either read their ability or create their pool of spell. I remember back in 2nd ed trying to avoid monsters with spells because I didn’t want to look through the list. No, everything you might need was there. But what about non combat spells? If the lich is a spellcaster, surely it should have non combat spells. To which I answer, why limit yourself to what is written in the books? If the lich is your BBEG and you need it to have a spell to create a portal, then just give it to it. You want the lich to have charmed and entire village? Just do it. You are the DM, it’s your world, your playground so do what you want if you think it would be cool! Like pretty much anything roleplay, you don’t need rules, you don’t need anything written in a book, your imagination is your limit! But X creature should never be able to do Y! Why? Why should it not? It could even create a nice hook to learn why it actually can. [/QUOTE]

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