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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 4094329" data-attributes="member: 70">OK (deep breath).  I'm going to tackle this again, briefly.  As far as I can tell (since you're not very specific), you're assuming homebrew creatures are held to a lower standard than published creatures.  That may be true for you, but it's not for me.  I add in synergy bonuses.  I put little superscript "B"s by bonus feats.  I try to make interesting, viable, and worthwhile monsters that will be interesting to fight or otherwise interact with.  And honestly, 95% of them don't get used in my campaign.  I -would- like to publish them, someday.When I'm writing statblocks for an adventure I'm running, I do use shortcuts.  But that's not how I create monsters.And for the record again, I'd love to see types reworked (the 4e system looks pretty good) and skills simplified.  But neither of those has anything to do with Orcus's example of a "weird" power (I'm pretty sure there are skeletons with blast powers, actually).</blockquote>