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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 4930155" data-attributes="member: 63">I did a lot of tinkering with solos for a 3-shot campaign I ran this summer. Each session had a dragon hunt, and after the first encounter involved perpetual slowed/dazed/stunned effects on the dragon (or at the very least psychic lock for a -2 penalty to its attacks), I decided to throw out the book and do heavy redesigns myself.Solos are usually:A. Boring, because they don't do as much interesting things as 5 separate creatures would. Not only do they only have a limited number of powers, they can only be in so many places at once, and engage only a few PCs usually, so the fight doesn't have as many aspects.B. Vulnerable, because status effects in 4e are designed to affect 1/5 of the opposing side, and so such powers are 5 times as powerful against solos. I mostly fixed the problem by winging it. Like I used to do back in 3e, when I thought the fight wasn't going well, I just made sh*t up until it got interesting. Of course the dragon can snatch you with its mouth and transfer negative status effects into you. Says so right on the statblock in invisible ink. And obviously the high inquisitor main villain can ignore any 5 conditions of my choice. She has captured the souls of her enemies and redirects your attacks at them, obviously.But still, that left players a little disgruntled. I'm inclined to blame the design of 4e, what with every other power having a rider effect.</blockquote>

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