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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bran Blackbyrd" data-source="post: 1188765" data-attributes="member: 1710">That D&D feel is all in your head, honest! If you don't use those monsters or spellcasting, then where's the D&D feel? You don't have to use them and there are some creatures in there that either weren't  in D&D, or are regular animals. In addition, you don't have to use the wealth system either, it's easy enough to get rid of (and I say that as someone who doesn't like doing my own mechanics). I use it, but I know a lot of people don't like it.Most of the monsters in D&D started out in mythology and folktales first. In fact, they predate D&D by centuries! In light of those facts, it's not really fair to say things like mummies, medusas, golems, gargoyles, vampires, etc. are part of the D&D feel. There wouldn't be much left for D20 Modern if they couldn't use those legendary monsters; and let's face it, some people are going to want to use them. Some of those people DON'T have the D&D books or don't want to lug the monster manual around with their D20M stuff.Now for the dead horse; The reason there are so many D&D monsters in D20M was for people who don't play D&D and to grab the crossover customers from D&D (which is also the reason why Urban Arcana came out first).I suggest you take a look at the Menace Manual if you are still interested D20M. It has Grays, Bogey Men, Alien Probes, Alien Hybrids, Mothfolk, Revenant, Sasquatch, and a host of other aliens and strange creatures. Yeah, there are a few creatures that were also in D&D, but so what. I like it quite a bit.I too think a lot of those creatures should have been in the core book and the medusas and trolls and whatnot should have been saved for UA, but I do understand why they did things this way. *shrug* What'cha gonna do?</blockquote>

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