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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lacyon" data-source="post: 4177948" data-attributes="member: 63046">If that's where you're going, I feel strongly that the "default" of any monster in the MM should be "play this guy out of the box along with other monsters out of the box".If the fluff says they usually travel with time duplicates of the PCs, that creates dissonance by making the default suggested in the book not the default of their actual use.Who cares about WOTCs permission? If they have a propensity, desire, or interest in making time duplicates, you send the "this monster needs to have time duplicates or else come up with a reason why this particular specimine doesn't" vibe.Except that the way you want to do it sounds simple, but isn't (apply a template to the PCs). The way I want to do it takes more words (and thus more page space), but is probably a lot simpler/better for actual "evil twin" combats. Devoting that much wordcount to describing how to do it sends even more of a "this is something that the phane should really be doing" vibe.Sure. But there's a reason you're using creature X instead of creature Y. Frequently this has to do with its fluff text. So if the fluff text leaves heavy implications that a creature does A and B, using that creature without doing A and B will seem silly.Of course the 4E phane can do all these things:He can make time duplicates. The DM represents these however he wants, (I prefer the simpler way more).He can steal time with a touch - this causes you to suffer some HP damage from aging as well as being slowed. He uses the stolen time to reposition himself on the battlefield.He can kill you by aging - his wizening ray causes you HP damage from aging as well as weakening you due to infirmity. Anything that causes HP damage can kill you.He's got all of it. You seem only to be upset that they're represented more generically (and less permanently?) than they used to be.</blockquote>

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