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Incenjucar said:They already had a book of pre-made encounters. They didn't make a second one.
They're reprinting the 1e MM pretty soon, which is very much functionally a book of encounters.
Incenjucar said:They already had a book of pre-made encounters. They didn't make a second one.
They're reprinting the 1e MM pretty soon, which is very much functionally a book of encounters.
Incenjucar said:I've read the thing before, and I did not get that impression.
How big was the encounter map they provided for mimics? Where was the list of prior adventurers consumed so the players could use Speak with Dead on it?
By no means do we need an entry for each color of a dragon for every single age category. It's ridiculous and takes up way too much space.
What I want is a standard entry for a dragon of each age category. Then, at the beginning or the end of the dragon section we'd have a small subsection dedicated to what abilities each color has and some insight into how they behave, and that's it. The differences between the different colored dragons shouldn't take more than a page.
I should hope not. I hated, hated, HATED that I had to reference almost half a dozen different tables to get a ready dragon in 3e/3.5e. Unless you can fit all that variety info and the generic statblock on one page spread, I don't want it.
Not to mention that it kills the option of actually making the dragons differ from each other on the ability level. I like knowing that white dragons are physical and thus have abilities to match that, without me having to go back to the statblock and make adjustments.
I have to put a lot more work into making 4e dragons interesting villains than I had to put into 2e or 3e dragons to make them interesting villain.
Also: Monster Manuals should come with fully developed lairs and peons. One shouldn't have to invest extra time into the game just to get an awesome dragon out of it.
Monsters have a life beyond combat. They have a context. 4e dragons are mostly devoid of this context, which cripples them in comparison to earlier-e dragons for my purposes.
They're reprinting the 1e MM pretty soon, which is very much functionally a book of encounters.
By no means do we need an entry for each color of a dragon for every single age category. It's ridiculous and takes up way too much space.
What I want is a standard entry for a dragon of each age category. Then, at the beginning or the end of the dragon section we'd have a small subsection dedicated to what abilities each color has and some insight into how they behave, and that's it. The differences between the different colored dragons shouldn't take more than a page.