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<blockquote data-quote="MrMyth" data-source="post: 4503825" data-attributes="member: 61155">I'm going to recommend once again that you advise him to check out the DMG rules on pages 182-183. Regardless of 'story over mechanics', you really want to break him of this habit now, rather than have him continue to use this 3.5 method of advancing monsters that will make them absurdly powerful in 4E. &nbsp;If he wants the encounter to be a hard one, all he needs to do is add more monsters or make them higher level. But he should be using the standard rules to do so, not the method he used here - or he will think it works fine, create a fight he expects you to win using it, and end up confused by how quickly they utterly destroy you. &nbsp;He can make what encounters he wants, using whatever creatures he wants, but he really should check out the DMG rules for modifying monsters. If he still chooses to design in his current fashion, that is certainly his right as a DM - but at least he'll have actively made that choice, rather than simply doing so out of habit, and with full awareness of the consequence of such a method.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MrMyth, post: 4503825, member: 61155"] I'm going to recommend once again that you advise him to check out the DMG rules on pages 182-183. Regardless of 'story over mechanics', you really want to break him of this habit now, rather than have him continue to use this 3.5 method of advancing monsters that will make them absurdly powerful in 4E. If he wants the encounter to be a hard one, all he needs to do is add more monsters or make them higher level. But he should be using the standard rules to do so, not the method he used here - or he will think it works fine, create a fight he expects you to win using it, and end up confused by how quickly they utterly destroy you. He can make what encounters he wants, using whatever creatures he wants, but he really should check out the DMG rules for modifying monsters. If he still chooses to design in his current fashion, that is certainly his right as a DM - but at least he'll have actively made that choice, rather than simply doing so out of habit, and with full awareness of the consequence of such a method. [/QUOTE]

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