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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7452285" data-attributes="member: 37579">Option creep = power creep.As you say, the math changed for the Monster Manual 3. Which means that all prior monsters were imperfectly designed. Looking at the update from July 2010: <a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/UpdateJuly2010.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/UpdateJuly2010.pdf</a>You'll notice the damage is increased dramatically at all levels. The defences for the brute, soldier, and artillery changed. So every single one was being hit 10% too often.Early monsters were significantly too weak to even match baseline PCs, let alone optimised ones after two years of regular crunch. Whataboutism.3e and 5e having similar issues does not excuse 4e of having encounter design problems.</blockquote>