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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Saeviomagy" data-source="post: 5520165" data-attributes="member: 5890">The issue here is that people are using excess amounts of grindy monsters, which is a matter of adventure design. Our group has hit paragon, and our last bunch of fights were quite quick (2 fights, a couple of skill challenges and some roleplaying in a 4 hour session), simply due to the fact that the bulk of the monsters we fought were, defensively speaking, quite lightweight. When comparing with previous fights, we really notice the effect of having lots of soldiers in an encounter.Speaking as a DM, I notice the same: soldier-heavy fights are tedious. I've been making it a point to swap soldiers out for other creatures until there are only 1 or 2 soldiers left in a fight OR replace all the soldiers in a fight with minion soldiers. And I have to do that for most fights: WoTC love soldiers in published adventures.Incidentally, I also notice a fairly big difference between MM1 and later MM monsters: MM1 monsters have too heavy a side in soldier as a whole.The other monsters I find boring are the ones that require a setup condition to do their thing: most of the time my players never see the end result because the conditions needed for the setup + finisher are complex enough that they never happen. From the players point of view the monster just looks like a bag of hitpoints with little offensive capability except for annoying status effects (which are usually the required setup).</blockquote>

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