Old Fashioned Rant

Recently, was playing the Imeryds Run fight (cheated and used Entangle. Meh).

Last dude down was a Barbarian-raging Lizard Man. Just before he died, he whipped across the map and spanked Pishella for 28hp damage: instant kill on the last monster attack [sigh]. Fruella was already dead cause she got swallowed by the behemoth frog and I forgot to stabilise her (I realised my error one round before and had just moved Ronald into position when she died. Oops.)

Anyways, I broke down the damage from the Lizard Man and found this:

PLUS TWENTY TWO STRENGTH BONUS??? Wtf is that? What, raging gives him the equivalent of 50+ strength? "Ooo look at me, I'm stronger than SAINT FUCKING CUTHBERT cause I raged".

Give me a break. Rage is all bonuses - since when do the monsters have to deal with the down side? They rage and spank you, and you either die or kill them. There is no down side for them, only for the party if THEY rage and then have to fight again afterwards.

Remind me to ban Rage from KotB. Come to think of it, St Cuthbert is banned too.