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<blockquote data-quote="DreamChaser" data-source="post: 3916993" data-attributes="member: 1190">Exactly. The big advantage to this is that you can control, moment to moment, the difficulty of the challenge without &quot;punishing&quot; the characters by withholding, removing, or f-ing with their magical items.One of the worst things, IMO, that 3e did was to attempt a parity between monsters and PCs so that it was assumed that anything you gave a monster the ability to do, there would be some way of the PC doing it as well. How do you make that medusa more powerful? Give her some class levels. If you give her the eye rays of a beholder out of her snakes, the players wonder (rightly within the structure of the game) where the hell that power came from and how they can get it too. (of course I am aware of (and frequently use) DM fiat to do crap like this anyway, but I was illustrating a point of rules assumption)From what I've read so far, this error has been corrected. Monsters are monsters and they do not need to be identical to PCs; in fact, it is better that they not be because they fill a different role.DC</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DreamChaser, post: 3916993, member: 1190"] Exactly. The big advantage to this is that you can control, moment to moment, the difficulty of the challenge without "punishing" the characters by withholding, removing, or f-ing with their magical items. One of the worst things, IMO, that 3e did was to attempt a parity between monsters and PCs so that it was assumed that anything you gave a monster the ability to do, there would be some way of the PC doing it as well. How do you make that medusa more powerful? Give her some class levels. If you give her the eye rays of a beholder out of her snakes, the players wonder (rightly within the structure of the game) where the hell that power came from and how they can get it too. (of course I am aware of (and frequently use) DM fiat to do crap like this anyway, but I was illustrating a point of rules assumption) From what I've read so far, this error has been corrected. Monsters are monsters and they do not need to be identical to PCs; in fact, it is better that they not be because they fill a different role. DC [/QUOTE]

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