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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6295443" data-attributes="member: 2067">Totally, yeah, those things would be great to have in the blue dragon entry in the MM! Rough, as you said, but this is the basic kind of thing I'd like to see, and it would totally be an improvement over 2e/3e. According to the 4e MM, you can only meet blue dragons in places where thunderstorms happen, and this thousand year old super genius creature never bothers to learn or develop any abilities other than "hit things hard with lightning."Which is just to say that an MM entry is generally designed to be specific. This isn't a bad thing in my mind, given the function of an MM -- something you want to be able to use at the table to help you play the monster. The less you have to make up on the spot, the better the MM helps you out (which goes back to why the 4e MM doesn't help me out as much as the 2e/3e MMs do). This dovetails with my idea of "examples, not defaults," nicely, because it would let you do something like present "Blue Dragon, Greyhawk" which lives in deserts and gets travelers lost without precluding a "Blue Dragon, Nerathi" which lives in storms-swept peaks and is more...direct... So in my ideal world, the MM wouldn't be definitive, but it would be exemplary.So I don't see it as limiting. I see it as an example of what you could do with a blue dragon, not definitive of what blue dragons must always be. And I see it as helping the function of an MM by giving you something you can use at the table to help you play the monster.</blockquote>

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