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<blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 9359067" data-attributes="member: 1125">youre playing 5e - cartoonification of encounters has be their core design <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I think the 4e Aboleth is a good example of where role labels were useful - Aboleths are manipulators seeking to dominate everything around them. For that 4e gave us Aboleth Brute, Aboleth Artillery, 2 Elite Controllers of different sizes (which was a bit redundant), but also a Soldier, a Lurker and a small Minion Skirmisher (Hatchling). Thus tags and the mix up of different thematic abilities was really helpful in making Aboleths lairs interesting.Just having roles as guidelines is helpful for DMs and as shorthand for a choice of tactics can enliven encounters and even whole adventuresWe really don't need 30+ different iterations of Orc, but having some templates that can be used to apply different roles with various linked abilities would be cool.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tonguez, post: 9359067, member: 1125"] youre playing 5e - cartoonification of encounters has be their core design :) I think the 4e Aboleth is a good example of where role labels were useful - Aboleths are manipulators seeking to dominate everything around them. For that 4e gave us Aboleth Brute, Aboleth Artillery, 2 Elite Controllers of different sizes (which was a bit redundant), but also a Soldier, a Lurker and a small Minion Skirmisher (Hatchling). Thus tags and the mix up of different thematic abilities was really helpful in making Aboleths lairs interesting. Just having roles as guidelines is helpful for DMs and as shorthand for a choice of tactics can enliven encounters and even whole adventures We really don't need 30+ different iterations of Orc, but having some templates that can be used to apply different roles with various linked abilities would be cool. [/QUOTE]

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