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<blockquote data-quote="Blue Orange" data-source="post: 8207941" data-attributes="member: 7025997">There was actually an official (setting-agnostic) module for 2nd ed called Reverse Dungeon where you play the monsters and there's a group of invading adventurers you have to repel.3rd ed had rules for statting out all the monsters as PCs in one of the sourcebooks, complete with level adjustments--they were very big on monsters and PCs using the same rules.As to the larger question, one of the things to think about is that you effectively have tens to hundreds of intelligent species on this world, and they are going to be fighting over territory and resources. Even if bugbears aren't 'evil', they might well enter conflict with humans for that reason.Of course, there's no need to assume groups will ally with their closest relatives. If anything you might see alliances between very different groups that aren't in the same ecological niche--fire giants aren't likely to fight humans over the inside of a volcano, but they might fight salamanders over it. You might see humans cutting deals with frost giants to drive off some pesky white dragons in exchange for the cold version of the fireball spell or something similar.You also have to answer why the higher-level monsters haven't conquered the world--why isn't the world overrun with dragons? My best guess is some variation of larger monsters having to eat a lot, such that the world can only support so many dragons, but in a fantasy world you are free to invent more supernatural causes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue Orange, post: 8207941, member: 7025997"] There was actually an official (setting-agnostic) module for 2nd ed called [I]Reverse Dungeon [/I]where you play the monsters and there's a group of invading adventurers you have to repel. 3rd ed had rules for statting out all the monsters as PCs in one of the sourcebooks, complete with level adjustments--they were very big on monsters and PCs using the same rules. As to the larger question, one of the things to think about is that you effectively have tens to hundreds of intelligent species on this world, and they are going to be fighting over territory and resources. Even if bugbears aren't 'evil', they might well enter conflict with humans for that reason. Of course, there's no need to assume groups will ally with their closest relatives. If anything you might see alliances between very different groups that aren't in the same ecological niche--fire giants aren't likely to fight humans over the inside of a volcano, but they might fight salamanders over it. You might see humans cutting deals with frost giants to drive off some pesky white dragons in exchange for the cold version of the fireball spell or something similar. You also have to answer why the higher-level monsters haven't conquered the world--why isn't the world overrun with dragons? My best guess is some variation of larger monsters having to eat a lot, such that the world can only support so many dragons, but in a fantasy world you are free to invent more supernatural causes. [/QUOTE]

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