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<blockquote data-quote="Klaus" data-source="post: 3731704" data-attributes="member: 607">Y'see, I see this less as a &quot;Monsters and PCs must have the same abilities available to them&quot;, as I see it as a &quot;Monsters and PCs are built in the same way, but with different blocks&quot;.Let's look at LEGO for a bit, shall we? You buy a car LEGO and a Star Destroyer LEGO. You buy the car and the Star Destroyer in the same way, using mostly the same bricks. But the Star Destroyer has some &quot;cheat bricks&quot;, i.e. bricks of unusual shapes and sizes, as to make the parts of a Star Destroyer that couldn't be built otherwise. I have no problem with these.Back to DnD: Look at a human Fighter and a Red Dragon. They are both built the same way: &quot;X&quot; HD + &quot;X&quot; x Con Mod = hp, 1 feat at HD 1 and another at every 3 HD, etc, etc. Sure, the dragon has its own &quot;cheat blocks&quot; (breath weapon, flight, DR, etc). Does the human Fighter get those? No. Just like the dragon doesn't get Weapon Specialization. But the two creatures are built in the same way, just using different bricks.If you wanna give your Insanity Wombat (go stat it up, Ari! NOW! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ) the ability to chew bits of reality and burp out butterflies that sprinkle Mountain Dew, by all means do so!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Klaus, post: 3731704, member: 607"] Y'see, I see this less as a "Monsters and PCs must have the same abilities available to them", as I see it as a "Monsters and PCs are built in the same way, but with different blocks". Let's look at LEGO for a bit, shall we? You buy a car LEGO and a Star Destroyer LEGO. You buy the car and the Star Destroyer in the same way, using mostly the same bricks. But the Star Destroyer has some "cheat bricks", i.e. bricks of unusual shapes and sizes, as to make the parts of a Star Destroyer that couldn't be built otherwise. I have no problem with these. Back to DnD: Look at a human Fighter and a Red Dragon. They are both built the same way: "X" HD + "X" x Con Mod = hp, 1 feat at HD 1 and another at every 3 HD, etc, etc. Sure, the dragon has its own "cheat blocks" (breath weapon, flight, DR, etc). Does the human Fighter get those? No. Just like the dragon doesn't get Weapon Specialization. But the two creatures are built in the same way, just using different bricks. If you wanna give your Insanity Wombat (go stat it up, Ari! NOW! :) ) the ability to chew bits of reality and burp out butterflies that sprinkle Mountain Dew, by all means do so! [/QUOTE]

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