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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 4237318" data-attributes="member: 5143">Seriously?  That's like saying that someone could run a modern adventure with no magic, no healing, and no classes and instead only a house ruled point buy system for abilities instead.  It's like saying that if you wanted to play soccer with your friends in your back yard that it would be perfectly acceptable to have one player who was able to carry the ball around and throw it whenever he wanted(who wasn't the goalie).Sure, you can change whatever you want.  But the POINT of the 3e monster rules is that you DON'T do that.  The point is that monsters and players all play by the same rules.  When monsters go up levels, they get hitpoints, attack bonuses, saves, skills, feats, and so on.  Same thing with players.  The idea being that if you have a monster who is 15th level and a player who is 15th level, their characters should be "balanced".  If you break this and just make up monsters using whatever rules you want, you aren't using the 3e D&D rules any longer(at least in terms of what a monster can do)."You can change the rules to whatever you want" isn't a rule of the game.  Its simply a statement of the obvious.  And it's been a tradition for a long time for DMs to change the rules.  So much so that any version of D&D that simply omitted this one statement would have a portion of the community up in arms that D&D doesn't let you have house rules anymore.However, I can assure you that my players would be up in arms if I made a creature like that.  I would be yelled at for breaking the rules.  Same thing would happen if I wrote that for a published adventure of any kind, including Living Greyhawk.  If I got that submitted to me as an editor, I would reject it as well.  Officially, WOTC considers D&D to be all of the books they have released without any rule that starts in "If you wish" or "You can, if you want".  All of those are considered "optional" rules and not part of the core rule set.Without the use of the "You can change the rules, if you want" statement in the 3e DMG, it is impossible to make a minion in 3e.</blockquote>

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