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I agree with all the previous posters. Personally, I often play with PCs that start out with a negative mod on one or more characteristics; it doesn't bother me. (It bothers me when other players query my lack of bother.) But everything said upthread is on the money.

Opinion masquerading as fact. And edition warring by stealth to boot. Give it a rest.

With Savage Species you could play lizard-man as a class easily. Given how little love the book gets, I'd be surprised if you couldn't pick up a cheap hard copy on eBay. The PDF is also available from dndclassics.com.

What is your definition of 'special abilities'? Because I can find plenty of examples of monsters having more than half a dozen special-sounding abilities going back over thirty years. In the 1977 Monster Manual Juiblex, for example, had literally dozens to choose from.

None needed. It's only clear to me now how easily my original post could have been interpreted differently. Hobo, sorry if I sounded dismissive of your web app efforts!

I asked about a native OS X version simply because the current DS FAQ states that initially the software will only run on tablets with the possibility of "PC/Web" versions being developed over time. And I don't have anything against web apps per se. However, games I run are often in places that...

You're absolutely right. It certainly isn't trivial. But smaller publishers are probably living in a different world to WotC. It's relatively cheap and easy to go for digital printing if you want a couple of thousand copies of a book. Once you're into the tens of thousands (or more) of copies of...

I think he meant 'approximately'. Hobo, thanks for the reply. I know us Mactards are only a small percentage of the market, so I hope we're still enough to make it worth the port. There's always Cider. I'll keep watching and listening. Good luck.

Fantastic. You've arrived just in time.

The 'them' in this case applies to the creatures with the abilities, not the abilities themselves, you realise? Sorry if that was unclear. That I'd misread. Agreed. Nah.

Sure, but what can we say about the likelihood of a creature using this ability or that? The very first bone devil I encountered as a player flew, turned invisible, nearly trapped my PC and another with a wall of ice, scared the wibblies out of us and fooled us with illusions. My DM at the time...

And if bone devils could still create illusions, they could make things up on the fly. Is that my coat?

Aiee! Etc. I'd become muddled because it was me who had mistakenly said, upthread, the 3e version couldn't fly, before realising that it could. So thanks for pointing out my wobble. And if flight represented 50% of the abilities absent from the 5e preview that bone devils had in earlier...

Several poster have admitted that they would forget some or all of the SLAs and other features of creatures when running them. Does that make them bad DMs? I don't believe so but the answer to your question remains an affirmative. Is a DM who only looks at what's written in a stat block and...

You think writing 'oh-the-humanity' before the word 'complexity' constitutes melodrama? Hm. Noted. ;) Please. First, it's the same game, just a different edition. But without getting bogged down in semantics, people buying into the game from earlier editions are being entirely sensible when...

Also, if a DM can't handle a monster that has been created with specific options for complex, multiple possible tactical deployments baked into it (in order to save the DM the time it would take to create such a creature), they are a poor DM. Really, let's not blame DMs for their taste in...

We've always been able to make things up on a case-by-case basis. But the bone devil has always been able to fly and turn invisible (among other things), until now. Our starting point for being creative was a creature that could do these things. Now it's one that can't. Shouldn't there be...

I mentioned in the Bone Devil preview thread that I was surprised to see that the 5e version (at least as far as the preview goes) seemed to have been stripped of features I'd been familiar with since 1e AD&D and I did say that this made it intrinsically less interesting than its predecessors...

Hang on. Most but not all of the devils in the 3e MM had greater teleport, sure. A few had fly and invisibility. Some had one or another illusion spell (but not the same one), but most also had unique SLAs (with respect to other devils) and a couple had no SLAs. Yes, maybe, although that will...

Indeed. I just looked again at their 3e incarnation and have to correct my earlier post. The 3e version can still fly, create illusions, turn invisible and more. I don't know about 4e but this 5e version is palpably less interesting, unless there are additional abilities listed elsewhere...