d20 Modern: ? about Monster layout (Book vs. SRD)

[danzig138]

I don't have the d20 Modern book, just the SRD, and I was curious to know if, in the book, the monsters were laid out more like the Monster Manual, or if it uses the stat block format found in the SRD? Thanks.

 

[Mr Fidgit]

it looks just like the SRD, but with pretty pictures

[edit - the SRD also doesn't have the written description for each creature]

 

[danzig138]

Ahhh

Thanks. I don't like the stat block layout much. It's too hard for me to quickly scan. Is the flavor text much different than the MM, and are the pictures good? I keep seeing a reference to a gnoll pimp...which I'd like to see.

 

[deranged DM]

Re: Ahhh

Thanks. I don't like the stat block layout much. It's too hard for me to quickly scan. Is the flavor text much different than the MM, and are the pictures good? I keep seeing a reference to a gnoll pimp...which I'd like to see.

http://www.wizards.com/d20modern/images/d20m_gallery/610_088190_90.jpg

Make sure to set your drink down first.

 

[Mr Fidgit]

not really; yes

for example:

Fiend

Otherworldly beings of terrible power, fiends are physical manifestations of evil and corruption that exist to inflict pain, fuel hatred, or spread despair. They are universally violent, greedy, and perverse. Their greatest pleasure is to tempt mortals to become as depraved as they are.

Fiends appear in countless forms, although their physical characteristics often reflect some sin or other vile aspect. For instance, a fiend of gluttony might take the form of a corpulent humanoid with an insatiable appetite, while a fiend of decay might manifest as a black, skeletal creature with a foul, rotting stench.

All fiends are outsiders. Use the information about outsiders (page 222) to create new fiends.

{disclaimer - that was not meant to infringe on the SRD, OGC, OGL or any other somesuch. it's merely meant to intice danzig138 to buy this book }

...and then the species traits follow, just like the SRD


the pictures of the monsters typically follow an example of that monster with PC levels: the gnoll pimp example is a 'gnoll strong hero 2', whose stats are in the SRD, the medusa charismatic hero 2 looks like a PR rep, and so on

 

[Mr Fidgit]

i totally forgot! thanks deranged DM!

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20modern/article/20021109a

has all of the art of the book (i believe)

 

[beta-ray]

I haven't bought the book YET either but I plan to. I have to say I was a tiny bit disappointed at the monster section (flipped through it). Not as much art depicting the monsters as I wanted. Oh well.

 

[Crothian]

I thought the monster section was too large and mostly useless. That one section above all else makes d20 modern, really d20 modern fantasy.

 

[Horacio]

I thought the monster section was too large and mostly useless. That one section above all else makes d20 modern, really d20 modern fantasy.

But I don't think that's a fault. With d20 Modern, as it it, you can play many kinds of d20 games, includinf d20 modern fantasy. Without the monsters, people should have to buy MM to play that d20 Modern Fantasy. It doesn't force you to a fantasy setting, but it gives you that way...

 

[Crothian]

But I don't think that's a fault. With d20 Modern, as it it, you can play many kinds of d20 games, includinf d20 modern fantasy. Without the monsters, people should have to buy MM to play that d20 Modern Fantasy. It doesn't force you to a fantasy setting, but it gives you that way...

But for a game advertised as modern, much of the book is usless because of the fantasy elements.