Comments on: 4th Edition Monsters: As Usual, I’m Completely Wrong

By: Jonathan Drain

Jonathan Drain — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:13:06 +0000

@Dominic: I don't understand; I did credit blog commenters as the an information source for my second post. The theory turned out to be incorrect after all, so if I had credited people by name we'd have both looked stupid. ;) I did refer to this post as deriving from a competing theory to my own. If you're looking for the source for that, it's here.

By: Dominic Amann

Dominic Amann — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:01:53 +0000

I guess your name says it all: you drain wisdom from other’s comments and repost it as yours.

By: Jeffrey Boser

Jeffrey Boser — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:20:31 +0000

I really do hope this is not the case, and that it goes to a saner 1/3 score as a modifer. As a gm, I hate penalties being common, everything should just add. Its like rolling dice and subtracting some of them from the others.

By: ChattyDm

ChattyDm — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:36:14 +0000

This is extremely reminiscent of the Iron Heroes Villain Class mechanics that Mike Mearls designed with Malhavoc Press. It does something very similar by taking a Monster archetype: The Demonic Brute let’s say and create a CR Dependent Table of stats and abilities. Creating a CR equivalent mo0nster takes 10-15 minutes tops…

I for one love the mechanic and expect to see ‘Brutes’ templates for Ogres and Trolls and ‘skirmishers’ for fast strikers…