D&D 5E Legen Lore 7/14/2014

[Jester David]

It's an excellent announcement and it makes me very happy.

I got into D&D late into 2nd Edition so my first monster book was the Monsterous Manual, which replaced the Monster Compendium series. After that the 3e MM, the PF Bestiary, and especially the 4e MM really seemed to fall flat.
This might easily end up my favourite MM.

 

[the Jester]

So I would guess that if a creature has been in at least 3 editions' first Monster Manuals (alternatively including the 2e Monstrous Manual instead of MC1), it is a fairly safe bet for the 5e MM. Things like goblins, orcs, ogres, oni/ogre magi, etc.

OTOH I think there are a few one-edition only MM stinkers that we will almost certainly not see; I would be shocked to have the phantom fungus, tojanida, baluchitherium or hatori in there.

There is a third category, though- monsters I'd love to be in the MM but am not confident that will be. Things like:

• Destrachan
• Dark Stalkers
• Leucrotta
• Elemental Archons
• Planetouched
• Bullywugs
• Faerie Dragons
• Quicklings
• Dire Animals

What do you think? Which of these are we likely to see?

 

[JC99]

So I would guess that if a creature has been in at least 3 editions' first Monster Manuals (alternatively including the 2e Monstrous Manual instead of MC1), it is a fairly safe bet for the 5e MM. Things like goblins, orcs, ogres, oni/ogre magi, etc.

OTOH I think there are a few one-edition only MM stinkers that we will almost certainly not see; I would be shocked to have the phantom fungus, tojanida, baluchitherium or hatori in there.

There is a third category, though- monsters I'd love to be in the MM but am not confident that will be. Things like:

• Destrachan
• Dark Stalkers
• Leucrotta
• Elemental Archons
• Planetouched
• Bullywugs
• Faerie Dragons
• Quicklings
• Dire Animals

What do you think? Which of these are we likely to see?

Dire Animals are too iconic to leave out, IMO. Faerie dragons were in the 3e MM, right? I think they'd want to include a few dragon-ish creatures like those and wyverns just to illustrate how different the iconic dragons are.

 

[jadrax]

So I would guess that if a creature has been in at least 3 editions' first Monster Manuals (alternatively including the 2e Monstrous Manual instead of MC1), it is a fairly safe bet for the 5e MM. Things like goblins, orcs, ogres, oni/ogre magi, etc.

OTOH I think there are a few one-edition only MM stinkers that we will almost certainly not see; I would be shocked to have the phantom fungus, tojanida, baluchitherium or hatori in there.

There is a third category, though- monsters I'd love to be in the MM but am not confident that will be. Things like:

• Destrachan
• Dark Stalkers
• Leucrotta
• Elemental Archons
• Planetouched
• Bullywugs
• Faerie Dragons
• Quicklings
• Dire Animals

What do you think? Which of these are we likely to see?

Planetouched we know are not.

Bullywugs and Dire Animals would seem to me to be to iconic to leave out.

Not sure on the rest.

 

[Kobold Stew]

Of your third category, I think the beset bets are

• Planetouched
• Bullywugs
• Dire Animals

 

[Henry]

Three cheers for Mearls' Minions! (D&D's Dirty Dozen!)
HIP-HIP-HOORAH!
HIP-HIP-HOORAH!
HIP-HIP-HOORAH!

 

[Paraxis]

I have played/run D&D since 1985 or so, I have never once encountered in play or used as an encounter Modrons of any sort. They are boring LN joke monsters made after some person without much imagination was inspired by looking at the dice in front of him. I consider any page with these, flumphs, or other non monster monster wastes of space and page count.

 

[Thaumaturge]

I have played/run D&D since 1985 or so, I have never once encountered in play or used as an encounter Modrons of any sort. They are boring LN joke monsters made after some person without much imagination was inspired by looking at the dice in front of him. I consider any page with these, flumphs, or other non monster monster wastes of space and page count.

Cool. I'm glad there are monsters in the MM for you too!

Thaumaturge.

 

[SkidAce]

I have played/run D&D since 1985 or so, I have never once encountered in play or used as an encounter Modrons of any sort. They are boring LN joke monsters made after some person without much imagination was inspired by looking at the dice in front of him. I consider any page with these, flumphs, or other non monster monster wastes of space and page count.

I have played/run D&D since 1983 or so, I have consistently used Modrons as inexplicable planer constructors/demolitionists. They are fascinating LN monsters made after some person with much imagination was inspired by platonic solids* and mathematical precision. They speak algebra in my campaign and I like them.

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* I'll grant you the likelyhood of the dice in front the person having "influenced" their design is high.

 

[GX.Sigma]

I have played/run D&D since 1985 or so, I have never once encountered in play or used as an encounter Modrons of any sort. They are boring LN joke monsters made after some person without much imagination was inspired by looking at the dice in front of him. I consider any page with these, flumphs, or other non monster monster wastes of space and page count.

I think it'll be interesting if you look through the MM when it comes out, to see if those "wastes of page count" add up to 32 pages.