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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 4173383" data-attributes="member: 1879">All of D&D so far, even 3e really, has been built from individually defined abilities. The trend has been towards unifying effects so that you don't have odd situations where monster A engulfs you in water save or die, Monster B engulfs you in water hold your breath for x rounds then save or die, and Monster C engulfs you in water save or your armour rusts as tended to happen in earlier editions. Nonetheless monsters could have completely odd effects unlike anything else in the game. Rust monsters, spore pods, green slime, etc. Whenever the players encountered something new there was a real opportunity for novelty and puzzles.In 4e the trend seems to have reached the end goal and then some however. I'm getting the idea that monsters can produce effects from list 2-3 on page 42 only. These powers will have a range of blah. No exceptions. No "can only be killed by stuffing broccoli in it's mouth while the bard plays a hurdy-gurdy." No funky abilities to taunt you with your own nightmares or take the form of a lost loved one. No implanting young in a PC that will hatch in d4 weeks. Blah.Sure the GM can put in anything he want. We all know that. So what? If I'm editing every monster to make it fit what I want it to do, why am I bothering to pay wotc for a monster manual? Perhaps the play will be so sweet that my fears will be moot, but I'm really starting to worry now. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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