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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6225158" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Well, the rules on what Elite and Solo monster's attacks should be like was quite vague. The only positive thing was that most MM1 monsters were well BELOW the standard damage expressions, which meant if you actually followed the guidelines exactly then you might actually get a bit more average monster damage. Given that they never really explained that an Elite should get the equivalent of TWO normal monsters attacks, and a Solo FIVE overall the guidelines were kinda poor at that stage. There were corrections later, but effectively as far as attacks go they pretty much said &quot;use monsters as a guideline&quot; but then spent another year before they brought out MM3 and really HAD good examples (there were a scattered few before that, and the Demonomicon has some pretty nice examples too). Ah well, IMHO WotC just never figured out what 4e was. They got it kinda by accident. After a while they learned to fix some things but the game seems to have been a bit different beast to WotC than to us...</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 6225158, member: 82106"] Well, the rules on what Elite and Solo monster's attacks should be like was quite vague. The only positive thing was that most MM1 monsters were well BELOW the standard damage expressions, which meant if you actually followed the guidelines exactly then you might actually get a bit more average monster damage. Given that they never really explained that an Elite should get the equivalent of TWO normal monsters attacks, and a Solo FIVE overall the guidelines were kinda poor at that stage. There were corrections later, but effectively as far as attacks go they pretty much said "use monsters as a guideline" but then spent another year before they brought out MM3 and really HAD good examples (there were a scattered few before that, and the Demonomicon has some pretty nice examples too). Ah well, IMHO WotC just never figured out what 4e was. They got it kinda by accident. After a while they learned to fix some things but the game seems to have been a bit different beast to WotC than to us... [/QUOTE]

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