Ratskinner
Adventurer
So, maybe I'm crazy here...
Having read the article about Legendary Creatures and its attached PDF, and now reading about Monster Mashups...
Are we witnessing a shift away from designing (or at least articulating) monsters as individual units and towards viewing monsters as components of encounters (perhaps encounters++) or chapters of the story.* That is, I could certainly see advantages to using the format we see with that black dragon writeup as a template for things like a Goblin Warren, Orc Tribe, or Ettercap...lair? hive? I also don't think this would be a terrible divergence from a trajectory starting back at the beginning of the game and continuing through 4e.
Would a monster manual that is organized by encounter be more or less useful than the traditional simple list o' critters?
*Possibly only in emphasis.
Having read the article about Legendary Creatures and its attached PDF, and now reading about Monster Mashups...
Are we witnessing a shift away from designing (or at least articulating) monsters as individual units and towards viewing monsters as components of encounters (perhaps encounters++) or chapters of the story.* That is, I could certainly see advantages to using the format we see with that black dragon writeup as a template for things like a Goblin Warren, Orc Tribe, or Ettercap...lair? hive? I also don't think this would be a terrible divergence from a trajectory starting back at the beginning of the game and continuing through 4e.
Would a monster manual that is organized by encounter be more or less useful than the traditional simple list o' critters?
*Possibly only in emphasis.