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<blockquote data-quote="nightraven" data-source="post: 5630743" data-attributes="member: 84088">I would suggest loosing your 4E, 3E and 2E books for awhile.&nbsp; Take out (or download) your 1E AD&amp;D or 0E D&amp;D (Gygax) and play for a few sessions.&nbsp; As DMs you will see the VAST majority of what is in todays statblocks actually slows the game down to a crawl, limits the DMs ability to make encounters interesting, and looses the essence of the monster type (which should be a simple thing).&nbsp;&nbsp; After having played all versions, and then going back to 1E AD&amp;D I can tell you everything that came later made monsters (and PCs) into cheap formula gimmick cartoons.&nbsp; The only time a statblock should be more then a few paragraphs is when your describing a broad culture and specifics that are meaningful and interesting (say how orcs organize and live).&nbsp; If a module writer or DM wants to make an orc a tracker in 1E he/she says he's a tracker (and on the spot he makes up some chances to do this or that) -done.&nbsp; No idiotic 3rd level thief crap (which makes this fellow seem less like a monster and more like a thief).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="nightraven, post: 5630743, member: 84088"] I would suggest loosing your 4E, 3E and 2E books for awhile. Take out (or download) your 1E AD&D or 0E D&D (Gygax) and play for a few sessions. As DMs you will see the VAST majority of what is in todays statblocks actually slows the game down to a crawl, limits the DMs ability to make encounters interesting, and looses the essence of the monster type (which should be a simple thing). After having played all versions, and then going back to 1E AD&D I can tell you everything that came later made monsters (and PCs) into cheap formula gimmick cartoons. The only time a statblock should be more then a few paragraphs is when your describing a broad culture and specifics that are meaningful and interesting (say how orcs organize and live). If a module writer or DM wants to make an orc a tracker in 1E he/she says he's a tracker (and on the spot he makes up some chances to do this or that) -done. No idiotic 3rd level thief crap (which makes this fellow seem less like a monster and more like a thief). [/QUOTE]

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