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<blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 6041403" data-attributes="member: 2011"><p>Except for minions, does it really matter if a PC uses his Dailies and Action Points against specific foes and not other foes? Doesn't killing or seriously wounding a standard monster mean that there's a fair chance that the PCs will take less damage overall as wounding an elite since action economy (i.e. number of foes) is often more important to winding up an encounter than the power of any given foe?</p><p></p><p>Personally as a player, I do not care what kind of monsters I damage, as long as I am damaging monsters. Also as a player, I don't want to know if the power that a monster just used is an Encounter power, an At Will, or a Rechargable one. That takes the fun out of an encounter. If the PCs get slammed by a power, my goal is to kill that monster, assuming that it has the same or similar powers up its sleeve. I don't really want to know which monsters have the mega powers and how often they get to use them before they get to use them (shy of known racial abilities that all monsters of that race have). That feels like cheating to me. The monsters shouldn't know my capabilities either (unless of course we have been in combat against each other previously). A DM shouldn't roll "PC checks" by the monsters to determine that a given PC is a Wizard (as opposed to some other type of spell caster) and use that knowledge tactically for the monsters either.</p><p></p><p>Yes, it is a game, but I prefer to play the game by reacting to what my PC observes as opposed to the DM handing out monster knowledge information like candy. For one thing, that feels a bit like railroading when the DM gives out knowledge information that precludes one of my attacks as being optimal. Information that the PCs observe? That's a different issue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KarinsDad, post: 6041403, member: 2011"] Except for minions, does it really matter if a PC uses his Dailies and Action Points against specific foes and not other foes? Doesn't killing or seriously wounding a standard monster mean that there's a fair chance that the PCs will take less damage overall as wounding an elite since action economy (i.e. number of foes) is often more important to winding up an encounter than the power of any given foe? Personally as a player, I do not care what kind of monsters I damage, as long as I am damaging monsters. Also as a player, I don't want to know if the power that a monster just used is an Encounter power, an At Will, or a Rechargable one. That takes the fun out of an encounter. If the PCs get slammed by a power, my goal is to kill that monster, assuming that it has the same or similar powers up its sleeve. I don't really want to know which monsters have the mega powers and how often they get to use them before they get to use them (shy of known racial abilities that all monsters of that race have). That feels like cheating to me. The monsters shouldn't know my capabilities either (unless of course we have been in combat against each other previously). A DM shouldn't roll "PC checks" by the monsters to determine that a given PC is a Wizard (as opposed to some other type of spell caster) and use that knowledge tactically for the monsters either. Yes, it is a game, but I prefer to play the game by reacting to what my PC observes as opposed to the DM handing out monster knowledge information like candy. For one thing, that feels a bit like railroading when the DM gives out knowledge information that precludes one of my attacks as being optimal. Information that the PCs observe? That's a different issue. [/QUOTE]
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