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07/08/2013 - Legends & Lore Monsters and the World of D&D
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<blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 6154370" data-attributes="member: 92511"><p>Just so. I completely agree with Vyvyan, here.</p><p></p><p>Mind Flayers? Yeah. Absolutely! They are iconic D&D. They are humanoid. They have a society. Language. Racial ties and attitudes. Possibly religion. They have a<em> Culture</em>. Not every critter in the MM does or needs this. They absolutely are entitled to a page, possibly more (though I'd prefer no more than a spread/2 pages).</p><p></p><p>Please, kind ENworlders, do keep in mind, I come at this from a Layout Editor/Graphic Designer with many years of publishing experience position as much as an avid fan/player/DM of D&D with a great love of the hobby. The greatest monster book in the world could be 1,000 pages long [maybe more!] and give us <em>all</em> everything we'd ever want about every possible monster. </p><p></p><p>This is simply, unfortunate but true, not possible in printed material...decisions must be made. Editing and layout design are jobs for a reason. Even online material, who among you have hours and hours to pour through...or, nowadays, <em>want </em>to pour through scrolling and scrolling and scrolling to get all of that information in?</p><p></p><p>D&D [or <em>any</em> RPG, for that matter] needs to be a coherent rules/information <em>set</em>...a system with enough info to give us the <em>tools,</em> the <em>parameters,</em> we need to make things work. They can not, possibly, give us <em>every</em>thing, every possible permutation, of what can <em>potentially</em> happen in game. </p><p></p><p>It simply can't be done in an affordable way, whether for money or time. I want things as evocative as possible. I also look at these things and think, "this won't work in a printed book"...and possibly, "this won't work in a PDF or website," either. Those are the, again, unfortunate, constraints of reality and the business-side of the hobby we all love.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="steeldragons, post: 6154370, member: 92511"] Just so. I completely agree with Vyvyan, here. Mind Flayers? Yeah. Absolutely! They are iconic D&D. They are humanoid. They have a society. Language. Racial ties and attitudes. Possibly religion. They have a[I] Culture[/I]. Not every critter in the MM does or needs this. They absolutely are entitled to a page, possibly more (though I'd prefer no more than a spread/2 pages). Please, kind ENworlders, do keep in mind, I come at this from a Layout Editor/Graphic Designer with many years of publishing experience position as much as an avid fan/player/DM of D&D with a great love of the hobby. The greatest monster book in the world could be 1,000 pages long [maybe more!] and give us [I]all[/I] everything we'd ever want about every possible monster. This is simply, unfortunate but true, not possible in printed material...decisions must be made. Editing and layout design are jobs for a reason. Even online material, who among you have hours and hours to pour through...or, nowadays, [I]want [/I]to pour through scrolling and scrolling and scrolling to get all of that information in? D&D [or [I]any[/I] RPG, for that matter] needs to be a coherent rules/information [I]set[/I]...a system with enough info to give us the [I]tools,[/I] the [I]parameters,[/I] we need to make things work. They can not, possibly, give us [I]every[/I]thing, every possible permutation, of what can [I]potentially[/I] happen in game. It simply can't be done in an affordable way, whether for money or time. I want things as evocative as possible. I also look at these things and think, "this won't work in a printed book"...and possibly, "this won't work in a PDF or website," either. Those are the, again, unfortunate, constraints of reality and the business-side of the hobby we all love. [/QUOTE]
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