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<blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 6253979" data-attributes="member: 3192">I would warn that moving from 50% chance to hit to 40% chance to hit is not increasing monster difficulty. Stats like AC are the &quot;walls&quot;, the constants of the maze design. Simply asking players to &quot;be luckier&quot; on their die rolls isn't increasing the challenge for them. But... Okay, yes. Making that AC harder to hit is part of making monsters harder. But I would suggest a 1st level PC should not be afforded the same game as at 10th level, but with lower monster penalty and treasure bonus modifiers. At 10th level there is a &quot;10th level suite&quot; of abilities the monsters have, combat tactics the &quot;average&quot; uses, class-related actions like raising an army or protecting a land of faithful adherents, of whose design complexity places them as starting at 10th level. Demonstrating you can handle the easier stuff leads to (more and easier) opportunities to do the harder stuff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="howandwhy99, post: 6253979, member: 3192"] I would warn that moving from 50% chance to hit to 40% chance to hit is not increasing monster difficulty. Stats like AC are the "walls", the constants of the maze design. Simply asking players to "be luckier" on their die rolls isn't increasing the challenge for them. But... Okay, yes. Making that AC harder to hit is part of making monsters harder. But I would suggest a 1st level PC should not be afforded the same game as at 10th level, but with lower monster penalty and treasure bonus modifiers. At 10th level there is a "10th level suite" of abilities the monsters have, combat tactics the "average" uses, class-related actions like raising an army or protecting a land of faithful adherents, of whose design complexity places them as starting at 10th level. Demonstrating you can handle the easier stuff leads to (more and easier) opportunities to do the harder stuff. [/QUOTE]

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