The Grind, The Slog, Sammich combat - its been called many things, but they all refer to the very same enemy. Fourth edition brought us many new ways to play the game, and it's combat system was one of the biggest changes. But along with those changes came an unwanted side effect. The Grind happens at the end of combat, after all the players have used their encounters and are either out of dailies or sitting on them for the next encounter, and the Artillery have been delt with, the enemy controller is dead, and the PC's Striker/Defender is at-will mopping up the hard to hit, low damage output Soldier monsters. The end of the encounter is a hand, the PC's have won - but there are still over two hundred hp to finish up with on the board. This state of affairs is what I will refer to as "The Grind."
After the jump we will identify the Enemey and then learn some Combat skills to fight it!
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