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<blockquote data-quote="Admiral Caine" data-source="post: 4551482" data-attributes="member: 60438">Monsters are also a key puzzle piece that I know with some certainty is being addressed.&nbsp;And it is being addressed off-camera.&nbsp;The monsters are being redesigned to fit with the new rules. They already have a release date for the Monster book that is actually before the Core rules. (June)&nbsp;Likewise, that will have a ripple effect on the game, and hopefully a positive one.&nbsp;What I am about to say is not offical. I met Jason Bulmahn at GenCon (and I'm just a fan, I don't know the man personally and don't want to misrepresent myself otherwise), and we talked about the role of monsters. If you take a monster and use the Beta Rules, they don't fare so well.&nbsp;Someting that was just barely hinted at was the possibility of taking a nod from 4E, and designing monsters to be monsters.. not laden down with information more applicable to players.&nbsp;3.5 had this way of trying to make every monster some sort of playable race, with player based skills. Likewise, monster grappling could be really obscene, with either instant success for the creature or the inability to grapple at all. A good many of those issues are being examined. &nbsp;I don't know this for a fact, but I have to say, if you're wondering where Erik Mona is in all of this, I would hazard a guess that the monster book is a project that he is working on with the rest of the Editorial Team.&nbsp;My point is- even with the PF Beta Rules being tested publically, there are a lot of things that go into making an entire rule set function better. Things are being tweaked on many levels.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Admiral Caine, post: 4551482, member: 60438"] Monsters are also a key puzzle piece that I know with some certainty is being addressed. And it is being addressed off-camera. The monsters are being redesigned to fit with the new rules. They already have a release date for the Monster book that is actually before the Core rules. (June) Likewise, that will have a ripple effect on the game, and hopefully a positive one. What I am about to say is not offical. I met Jason Bulmahn at GenCon (and I'm just a fan, I don't know the man personally and don't want to misrepresent myself otherwise), and we talked about the role of monsters. If you take a monster and use the Beta Rules, they don't fare so well. Someting that was just barely hinted at was the possibility of taking a nod from 4E, and designing monsters to be monsters.. not laden down with information more applicable to players. 3.5 had this way of trying to make every monster some sort of playable race, with player based skills. Likewise, monster grappling could be really obscene, with either instant success for the creature or the inability to grapple at all. A good many of those issues are being examined. I don't know this for a fact, but I have to say, if you're wondering where Erik Mona is in all of this, I would hazard a guess that the monster book is a project that he is working on with the rest of the Editorial Team. My point is- even with the PF Beta Rules being tested publically, there are a lot of things that go into making an entire rule set function better. Things are being tweaked on many levels. [/QUOTE]

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