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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storminator" data-source="post: 5776586" data-attributes="member: 305">Monster roles are great in 4e. They're extremely functional. You can get the right encounter and just change the fiction to match.I just ran a dungeon crawl in 4e. The PCs (all goblins) had found the back door to the rival clan's throne room and assaulted it.A typical fight included an eladrin sorcerer (artillery), a cave bear (brute), a warforged fighter (soldier), a demon (artillery) and a deva (controller).Except I picked all those based on how they were supposed to fight, and just called them all hobgoblins. The eladrin sorcerer was a archer with fire arrows, the cave bear was the kitchen drudge with a pair of meat cleavers, the warforged was a clan guardsman, the demon was a pet hell hound, and the deva was a tribal shaman. None of my players even knew I mashed the stat blocks together. Someone wondered where I got so many different hobgoblin stats. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Divorcing the mechanics of the monster from the fiction means I can get EXACTLY the mechanical fight I want and EXACTLY the fiction I want at the same time. No compromise.PS</blockquote>