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<blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 4556384" data-attributes="member: 94">But you really don't need a designer to tell you this. (Ok, perhaps a new DM does need someone to tell him this; but the 3.5 revision market is not composed of newbie DMs.) But my point is that there really isn't any (re)design imperative to tell you that fighters need STR and Fort and wizards need INT and Will.My point, if it wasn't clear, is that switching the &quot;role&quot; of a creature is (a) easy for any reasonably informed DM and (b) almost always going to be a CR wash. I think most DMs are comfortable in their ability to do (a) but not necessarily comfortable about (b). They want hard proof. They want mathematical surety. As tedious and potentially endless as those proofs may be, they want to be convinced that they aren't going to break the d20 system if they wing it. Convincing them of that isn't a design problem, it's a PR problem. Resetting the 3e-hard-science-player-empowerment mentality to a 1e-art-form-DM-empowerment mentality is a PR problem that would require WOTC- or Paizo- or Monte-sized clout to solve.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wulf Ratbane, post: 4556384, member: 94"] But you really don't need a designer to tell you this. (Ok, perhaps a new DM [I]does [/I]need someone to tell him this; but the 3.5 revision market is not composed of newbie DMs.) But my point is that there really isn't any (re)design imperative to tell you that fighters need STR and Fort and wizards need INT and Will. My point, if it wasn't clear, is that switching the "role" of a creature is (a) easy for any reasonably informed DM and (b) almost always going to be a CR wash. I think most DMs are comfortable in their ability to do (a) but not necessarily comfortable about (b). They want hard proof. They want mathematical surety. As tedious and potentially endless as those proofs may be, they want to be convinced that they aren't going to break the d20 system if they wing it. Convincing them of that isn't a design problem, it's a PR problem. Resetting the 3e-hard-science-player-empowerment mentality to a 1e-art-form-DM-empowerment mentality is a PR problem that would require WOTC- or Paizo- or Monte-sized clout to solve. [/QUOTE]

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