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<blockquote data-quote="Lizard" data-source="post: 4037006" data-attributes="member: 1054">Current game, we have a sorcerer who uses his familiar to deliver touch spells; initiative order matters; so do all of its other combat stats. Arbitrary decisions that a monster does or doesn't &quot;need&quot; a stat because &quot;Who would ever use it?&quot; are almost guaranteed to result in bad or missing rules. Combat stats for the cat? What happens when one familiar attacks the other? Or when a raven attacks a druid in mouse form? Or when someone tosses Enlarge on a housecat, and you want the stats to properly scale? Or Awakens a porcupine? Or...The only selling point D&amp;D has over WOW and other online games is that D&amp;D is limited only by the imagination of players. A decision that the only action which matters/can occur in a game is straight-up combat is a very poor one, and if the 4e Monster Manual is entirely based on &quot;These monsters exist to provide for interesting combat encounters, and that's that&quot;, it will be the least useful iteration of that classic tome.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lizard, post: 4037006, member: 1054"] Current game, we have a sorcerer who uses his familiar to deliver touch spells; initiative order matters; so do all of its other combat stats. Arbitrary decisions that a monster does or doesn't "need" a stat because "Who would ever use it?" are almost guaranteed to result in bad or missing rules. Combat stats for the cat? What happens when one familiar attacks the other? Or when a raven attacks a druid in mouse form? Or when someone tosses Enlarge on a housecat, and you want the stats to properly scale? Or Awakens a porcupine? Or... The only selling point D&D has over WOW and other online games is that D&D is limited only by the imagination of players. A decision that the only action which matters/can occur in a game is straight-up combat is a very poor one, and if the 4e Monster Manual is entirely based on "These monsters exist to provide for interesting combat encounters, and that's that", it will be the least useful iteration of that classic tome. [/QUOTE]

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