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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 3475940" data-attributes="member: 3285">To put it another way, an ogre with barbarian levels looks an awful lot like a hill giant with fewer barbarian levels. When monsters only have a few abilities, like rock throwing, improved grab, and rend (which, it seems, everything has these days), they blend together.In essence, when broken down to their component parts, there's maybe 20 unique monsters and the rest are simply new versions of the same archetype.  Can't I just make a kobold a medium-sized humanoid to get my lizardfolk?  Or give my satyr the tauric template to make it a bariaur?  If you go down this path, the monster books out there seem awfully repetitive.  The reason I'm even bothering to do this is because I have just about every monster loaded in eTools and I'm not interested in entering new ones.  So I try to find something similar...and unfailing, there's ALWAYS something that's almost indistinguishable from the supposedly unique monster that someone else thought up. Am I the only one who does this, or is everyone eagerly waiting to use the fifth variant of lizardfolk-type monsters who happen to be from another plane of existence?</blockquote>