Creature Size, Ability Scores, and Damage Table

[Huckster42]

D&D has just one table for all creature Types (Table 5-1 in the Monster Manual). D20 Modern has a separate Table for each creature Type. Does anyone know why they decided to use many tables in d20 Modern when just one sufficed for D&D? Is there really any advantage to the extra details (seems just like extra bookkeeping to me and the differences seem trivial). Also, doesn't this make animals created for D20 Modern incompatible with those in D&D, and vice versa? Perhaps they're planning on having multiple tables in the next edition of D&D!

Any thoughts?

Huck

 

[Nyeshet]

Its been a while since I played d20 modern, so I looked over the SRD to refresh my memory. As best I can tell, the Size vs Ability table is nearly identical to that in D&D - the only discrepency being that Dex does not continue to decline after Large size. (I guess this was necessary for the massive yet swift villains sometimes seen in some animes.) Hmm, just glancing over the damage by size for the creatures seems - purely based on memory - similar if not identical to similar tables at the start of MM2. Perhaps it is just the fact that they are arranged slightly differently? (Such as - with the size vs abilities table - the Dex is listed as constantly declining from Fine to Colossal, rather than decreasing from Medium to larger and inclining from Medium to smaller.)