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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeapThaumaturgist" data-source="post: 1190767" data-attributes="member: 12332">Well, I asked E Cagle over at the Wizards boards exactly why the main D20M book is so chock full of D&D-specific monsters.  This is his reply:"The answer is very simple: you CANNOT assume that every d20 Modern player out there also plays D&D, and thus owns a copy of the Monster Manual. Now, I know that you may scoff at the idea, but think about it for a second. d20 Modern is not a "companion" to D&D--it is its own separate beast with its own rules and books. By putting in some of the creatures from D&D into d20 Modern, that allows those people without the books to play those creatures. It also means that those players that are both D&D and d20 Modern players to utilize those creatures without having to tote along their Monster Manual and do any conversion (yes, there are some minor differences between the critters in D&D vs. d20 Modern). The same thing happens in D&D. Wizards intentionally stays away from having non-core books refer to other non-core books, using the argument that you can't assume that all players have both of those. Everything points back to the three core books, as those are the ones that are assumed that every gaming group has."So the reason the monsters are in there is so that people will use and identify D&D monsters, I guess.  I imagine that when D20 Future comes out there'll be alot of D&D monsters in that too.  Some sort of common theme among WotC products.Next up, Kobolds in power armor.--fje</blockquote>

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