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OK, so we know that KarinsDad would be OK with a Monster Manual that lists hill giant toddlers on the encounter table. For the benefit of everyone else - I continue to find it surprising that a major publisher, interested in avoiding a negative reception, would make this particular choice.

So you're OK with killing baby orcs and goblins then? You don't know fire snakes are evil menaces. You know they have NE in their alignment box. Are you OK with killing random people on the street (in your game) because they have NE in their alignment box? Maybe they're just greedy. What...

To use an incredibly slippery-slope sort of argument: Many people in the gaming industry have argued that unconscionable acts (like slavery) should be an accepted part of their game world, because it's more "realistic". WotC, and other companies, make it clear that, regardless of real-world...

I don't remember that as the case, but I suppose I could be mistaken.

1. I didn't feel the need to rehash the explanation HardcoreDandDGirl already went over. 2. As I originally stated, the fact that you are dismissive the argument and don't see what we're saying - is what I find troubling. You really should see it. 3. Fiction holds a mirror up to reality...

This is exactly what I mean by attempts to dismiss the issue. A response like MoutonRustique 's shows thought and consideration of the issue. Yours is "who cares what you think?"

Again, none of what you describe is in the entry for the monster. You are projecting your pre-assumption (that it's OK to kill these monsters) to create a creature that fills your needs. Nothing about the fire snake requires it to be a newborn other than the desire to tie it to the salamander...

Except, again, this is just AD&D's version of the planes you're describing - not Planescape specifically.

There are those who consider D&D's use of the "evil from birth" trope as a cheap cop-out, to avoid considering the ramifications of the player's desire to just kill some monsters. I admit to leaning to that desire myself, but I've thought about it. Is the fact that something is evil by nature...

Funny, but apart from the alignment descriptor (and everyone hates that alignment was included in 5e, right?) I don't see anything in the salamander writeup saying anything about "immediately drawn to killing humans". I don't mind people disagreeing with me on this issue. But I find attempts...

But when the MM tries to fit demons and devils into a larger mythical history you don't want that. I don't want my PH to tell me that dwarves are a former slave race to giants - that sounds like the kind of racial baggage that would go against the world building I do. Saying "they live in...

Hmm. Kobolds are always listed as tunneling creatures. Do they use tools for this? Or their claws? Or domesticated thoqquas?

Rolled up characters last night. It's my first attempt at a sandbox game, so we'll see how that goes. Fortunately, most of the monsters I need are in the released pdfs.

I've got a player taking the Observant feat. One of the lines is: "You have a +5 bonus to your passive Wisdom (Perception) and passive Intelligence (Investigation) scores." Now, passive Perception gets mentioned all over the place, but passive Investigation? Is this just for when the DM has a...

A spell that gives you an armor class as if you were wearing a certain kind of armor is in keeping with the nature of spells in traditional D&D. A spell that gives you an armor class based solely on the numeric value of your current armor class, circumstances included, doesn't seem to model the...

I've been saying this since we saw the first monster guidelines. I wonder if some math-oriented ENWorlder with time on his hands wants to take a crack at this?

If I didn't know better I'd swear you were being sarcastic here.

How dare you bring that up again?! /ragequitragequit

It seems to me that the DMG (or ENworlders if the DMG fails us) could make a package of simple "house rules" for encouraging multi-classing, as opposed to the current rules which seem to discourage it somewhat.

I submit that, while in the real world "evil" is a matter of perspective and philosophy, in classic D&D evil was a real, physical (well, metaphysical) thing that could be detected, dispelled, smote, and suddenly visited on someone if you put the right helmet on them. So conceiving of a creature...