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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShinHakkaider" data-source="post: 2955649" data-attributes="member: 9213">See I'm just the opposite. In regards to stats I like to see what I have to work with, then change what I need to than build from scratch myself. Less work for me. I like a good situation and story as well, but after that, there's actual work to be done to prep the adventure for actual playing. For me tweaking pre-existing stat blocks are part of that prep work. Yeah, but like I said before theres a difference between stating something out your self from scratch and tweaking a pre-existing statblock. If I had my choice, which I do, I'd rather tweak and make changes than to build from scratch, that was kinda my point about dismissing the product because of the lack of usable stat blocks.Which is great if you play more than one game. You can use it for what ever fantasy based game that you want. In my case I play one fantasy based game and that's D&D. Don't get me wrong I have plenty of older generic suppliments and suppliments and modules from previous editions. But you see, I ALREADY OWN those, I'm not spending money on a new product to do extra work. I dont think youre wierd for thinking that way, I just dont agree with it. For me D&D isnt some great narrative undertaking. It's a game. I need things that facilitate the playing of the game. I'm not gonna bore the crap out of my players with lines and lines of descriptive flavor, if I can just show them a picture, or get the point across in fewer words. In my experience players only take what they want from anything that's presented to them anyway. For me, for monsters and NPC's I need few things: who is it? What does it do? and Why does it do it? and I want it as concisely as possible without lines and lines of prose. If I want lines and lines of prose, I'll read a storybook or novel. For me game books are reference books. Give me what I need to know to play and run the game. Everything else is gravy.</blockquote>

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