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<blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 5976099" data-attributes="member: 3424"><p>Would it have hurt WotC to say something along the lines of: </p><p></p><p>"One of the great things about 4e was the way that the monsters' attack bonuses were closely linked to their level, so that you don't get high-level monsters that were unable to hit the characters or low-level monsters that almost always hit.</p><p></p><p>Now, some people didn't like this approach because sometimes, there didn't seem to be any relationship between a monster's ability scores and its attack bonus. In 5e, we're going to improve things for these people by explaining why a monster's attack bonus is lower or higher than its ability scores would suggest. For example, ..."</p><p></p><p>That way, it would be a case of:</p><p></p><p>Look at level, get attack expected bonus -> good</p><p></p><p>Start with ability score, look at level, get expected attack bonus, add in extra bonus or penalty to get ability score bonus to line up with expected attack bonus -> better</p><p></p><p>Then again, maybe WotC has assessed that publicly acknowledging the design influence that 4e had on 5e will cost them more sales than keeping silent on the subject.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FireLance, post: 5976099, member: 3424"] Would it have hurt WotC to say something along the lines of: "One of the great things about 4e was the way that the monsters' attack bonuses were closely linked to their level, so that you don't get high-level monsters that were unable to hit the characters or low-level monsters that almost always hit. Now, some people didn't like this approach because sometimes, there didn't seem to be any relationship between a monster's ability scores and its attack bonus. In 5e, we're going to improve things for these people by explaining why a monster's attack bonus is lower or higher than its ability scores would suggest. For example, ..." That way, it would be a case of: Look at level, get attack expected bonus -> good Start with ability score, look at level, get expected attack bonus, add in extra bonus or penalty to get ability score bonus to line up with expected attack bonus -> better Then again, maybe WotC has assessed that publicly acknowledging the design influence that 4e had on 5e will cost them more sales than keeping silent on the subject. [/QUOTE]
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