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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ExploderWizard" data-source="post: 6365202" data-attributes="member: 66434">Wait what? You are going to creatively add to monsters from the MM? Get outta town!! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" />SOMEBODY GETS IT!!! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />D&D has traditionally been about making up stuff and sharing it with your friends. Somewhere along the way the idea that the game designers should do all of your imagining for you became popular. I see the MM and similar collections of monsters as a huge tub of Lego bricks that I can use to create stuff for my game. EVERY monster has the capacity to serve as a template for something unique. Boring monsters? A bucket of Lego bricks is only boring if you don't build something cool out of it. Back during one of my old 1E campaigns trolls had become rather run of the mill. The party grew to know how to deal with them. During an adventure in a lost world type ruined city the party ran into some troll like creatures with orange skin and huge tusks. They didn't know quite what to make of them at first. When one of these "trolls" belched fire on them from 30 feet away it was quite amusing. Thus began the first encounter with fire trolls. One my favorite features of the old 4E monster builder was how easy it was to grab a monster as a template then select from a huge menu of a la carte powers & abilities to create unique things.</blockquote>

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