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Message: <blockquote data-quote="triqui" data-source="post: 5883321" data-attributes="member: 57948">I disagree. It does teach you, because it helps you to do so. A group of newbie players in 3e or 2e might easily fight several  1vs1 fights when facing a group of goblins. I know I did when I was newbie.In 4e, however, bonus are situational. They rarelly last for long. When your warlords hit some guy and his power says everybody adds his Charisma to hit and damage for *one round*, it becames clearly obvious what you have to do *next round*. To focus fire in the guy and get the bonus. While doing so, you see the other beneficial aspects of focusing fire (like a dead mob is better than two wounded ones). Also, several monsters have "bloodied" abilities. Monsters tend to be nastier when they are bloodied. In old editions, having 2 monsters at half hp is wrong, compared to having one at full hp and another one dead. In 4e, it goes further. Not only the 2 half health monsters get full actions against you, they do so *with a bonus*. So 4e DOES teach you to focus fire, and much better than any other edition.I don't see why this is a bad (or good) thing. But it's clear that 4e teachs players to focus fire much better than other editions.</blockquote>