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Message: <blockquote data-quote="n00bdragon" data-source="post: 6278002" data-attributes="member: 6689371">You all realize that a number of iconic monsters in D&D were invented when Gary Gygax bought a bunch of cheap plastic monster toys from a dime store and wrote stats for them right? Things like the owlbear and the rustmonster? Yeah, those started out as cheap throwaway toys.All this talk of history and changing the lore and stuff is nonsense. The "ecology" or history of these monsters doesn't need to be consistent; self, internally, or otherwise. From where I'm sitting it seems like designers and a lot of people here have gotten way too caught up in some strange idea of what D&D is supposed to be and forgotten that it's a game of Fantasy with a capital F. It can be whatever you want it to be for whatever reason you want it to be. In the beginning it was just supposed to be a place where you made **** up and that was okay, everyone just rolled with it. I'd feel a lot better about 5e's Scoundrel Scroll or whatever if the designers would go out and buy a bag of cheap plastic monster and just let their imagination run wild.</blockquote>