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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 4731810" data-attributes="member: 2020">I gotta admit, it makes me shudder to think of planning encounters as a DM, where I have to think up 22 feats for each and every monster, plus 6 per level (for 30 orcs?!  LOL.)  In a case like that, I'd be more inclined to give the orcs a grouping of feats I know well, and leave it at that.  A few nasty Specials for high powered monsters.  And bump the ECL of the monsters up appropriately.  But yes, the players will win the Arms Race, for exactly the reasons you mention.  Unless I had a photographic memory (I don't ...) I could not possibly hope to arm my Monsters, as DM, the way the Players will - perusing carefully and cleverly - arm their characters.  (chuckles ruefully)  And thus my Monsters will be systemically exterminated (most messily, massively, and with utter finality) by these Player Characters armed with those armloads of sweets from the candy store.  It is inevitable.  The real question for me is:  Can I at least make it a fun challenge for them?  I have to do that, or the game is boring and I have failed in my job.</blockquote>