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77) Scratch-n-Sniff Monster Manual

34 - Dice are abandoned in favor of chits. The battle-cry of 5e becomes "Chit Happens!".

Grab some drumsticks and zip-ties and you've got Baba Yaga's dancing hut right there!

I am not shy about telling folks that I am a man of limited interests. I run an undersea D&D game, have sea critter tattoos, keep saltwater aquariums, and yes... I own a squid hat. But I have been fueled by geek-power for decades. Anyone who knows me wishes they didn't. ;)

SOOOO glad I re-read that.... "pasty collection" indeed...

If 5e is supposed to be modular, then they need to start with a simple base of five races; Human, Elf, Halfling, Dwarf, and Orc. Keep it simple. Keep it simple. Other popular races would be mentioned, but detailed in the Monster Manual. Yes, I am aware that everyone has their favorites. To be...

90-mile-wide Underwater Storm !!

aaaaand now I have this image of EGG trying on boots... thank you for that. ;) Most of us, at the time, were figuring out how the tax revenue earned by our name-level PCs could be spent on purchasing 4,376,234 chickens.

That was one of my issues with 2e (and 4e), as well. Still I can understand those who feel that all PC races from editions 1-4 (no Basic elves as a class) shoudl be represented. After all, I had a player with an alu-demon character in my last 1e game and I have a player with a viletooth...

While support for more detailed beasties will remain:

Works for me. I remember when I first purchased the property where I now live. Before we built the house, I camped out one night, with my son. That night, we went for a walk in the woods. Halfway down a trail, we heard the most blood-curdling screech. Coyote, perhaps? I did not know, so...

Fair enough. But in medieval fantasy wouldn't orcs, goblins, and kobolds be nearly as common as the boar, deer, and wolf? A D&D knight would be well trained in the manner of monsters he or she might encounter, before setting foot in their first dungeon. Even the commoners would know a handful...

I have no doubt we'll see the kuo-toa and sahuagin in the 5e MM, but that's hardly sufficient to fill the seas. With a brief paragraph in select monster entries, we can add scrag (troll), merrow (ogre), koalinth (hobgoblin), kapoacinth (gargoyle), sea elf, and the like, which leaves a...

Yeah, that needs a little work. Realistically thinking, how many people have personally encountered a cobra, whale shark, panda, or jaguar? Yet all of those creatures are easily identified, because of learned knowledge.

I want a MM that is part "Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide", part cookbook, and part reference manual. I want beautiful illustrations that may not be entirely accurate, as if drawn by those who actually encountered the creatures. I want tidbits like "goblins are known to make chitterlings from...

Sea elves, merfolk, and locathah in the 5e PH!! woot!! ;)

And I want a PH with a reasonable page count, to keep the book affordable to new players. Compromise. Make the intelligent races in the MM playable but presented with only the bare essentials, thus keeping the page count of the MM manageable. The entries could be expanded upon later, in...

To be fair, the swastika was in use long before the nazis perverted its meaning. As for the confederate flag, around my part of NC flying such a flag is little different than flying a NASCAR flag.

Agreed. Everyone has favorite races. When I suggested that the PH have human, elf, dwarf, halfling, and orc, I got flack from those who like half-elves and the like. With the "complexity dials" in mind, I was simply looking at things from a matter of simplicity. Playing a half-elf, gnome, or...

Not if the 5e MM was written in such a way as to make intelligent races (including gnomes and half-races), certain undead, awakened animals, and the like as playable options.