by wakasm
About me:
I own all the expansions, and some of the misc monster packs and Lieutenant Packs.
I've played through the base adventure multiple times, but have yet to crack into the expansions, although will be doing so soon, as I finally have found a group that likes persistent games (we just finished all of Pathfinder).
So far, I haven't mixed many of the expansion monsters + heroes together, but I was considering doing this since for organizational purposes, it seems a lot cleaner (and from reading on here, a lot people do this anyway, so that from the start, they have access to everything).
My Question(s):
I've found that in a lot of first box quests, where the overlord gets to choose from a group of monsters, many times, they choose the same monsters over and over when possible. (Shadow Dragons come to mind, almost every new overlord I've played with chooses them when available).
Do future expansions force more varied monster choices, IE, will you see at least all of the monsters once? Or if you mix in all of the monsters, do the more powerful ones stand out even more, making a lot of "weaker" monsters never used, and the stronger ones chosen many more times?
Just curious. I'm not overwhelmed with minis, and trying to figure this out! Was also considering some sort of variant that might prevent picking the same monster type over and over.