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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jaer" data-source="post: 4039526" data-attributes="member: 57861">I encounter this with my group all the time, actually.  My players will look at what NPCs can do and try to reverse engineer them to figure out what they are.  "Illegal" builds get and spell-like effects that my players can't replicate with magic get seen as me 'cheating' because 3e is typically set up as "NPCs are PCs played by the DM" which means my creatures must obey the same rules as my player's characters.  4e looks like it is doing away with that, and I am very glad.Another thing I hated about high level 3e (which I think was mentioned): wizard spell books.  Writing those up sucked!  I don't even give wizards a full daily list of spells (I know they won't get to cast them all, and I figure, much like the PCs, they've probably used some of their spells already or have ones that aren't combat oriented), but then I had to figure out all the spells he had in his spell book so the PCs knew what they got?  Ugh!My biggest gripe about the CR system is that it does not do a good job of balancing one creature against a party. Single creatures cannot do enough in a single round to match the output of a 4 person party.  The only way to have 1 creature survive against the group is to have the AC/DR and Saves/SR so high as to annoy the best attacker/caster and completely frustrate all others (which ends up being no fun for them).I like that they are trying to make combat larger, but that they are specifically designing creatures with the mentality that this one combatant needs to be able to handled 4 or 5 opponents at once.  This is something I find lacking in 3e and look forward to in 4e.</blockquote>

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