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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 2982669" data-attributes="member: 1106">Don't turn this into an edition wars thread.  (What's wrong with breath weapons other than fire anyway?)Besides, 3E inherited all that stuff without modification, and saw fit to put such flavour "gems" like the digester, choker, krenshar, tojanida, phantom fungus, spider eater, destrachan, howler, girallon, ravid, rast, ethereal filcher & marauder, grey render, athach, delver, yrthak and devourer in the core monster book.  Wouldn't touch most of those with a 10 foot pole.From what I gather, the reason why this (IMO) carnival of lame is in there is for mechanical reasons - no other edition of the game seems to have put the wagon before the horse in this way as a matter of course.You're kidding, right?  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" />  For every synergistic combination this makes possible, it makes a mockery of the flavour in countless others...nevermind suggesting the notion of a world full of randy trolls and dragons mating with every other random species in sight.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></blockquote>