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<blockquote data-quote="Vocenoctum" data-source="post: 2942956" data-attributes="member: 2477"><p>They did a book on NPC's early in 3e and it tanked, IIRC. They've been expanding NPC's and encoutners in many books, and while ENWorld may dislike it, I'd think WotC has been watching feedback closely enough to know what people that are actually buying their books want. They may have done too many lairs, or too many classed creatures, but I don't think the lairs or stats themselves are a bad idea.</p><p></p><p>I'd assume it's because you simply can't drop in psionics in teh book. You can't print every power a psion uses to fulfill the encounter, though you can quickly and easily explain a scouts abilties or a marshal's.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Does that mean they shouldn't have D&D RPG monsters in DDM then? Of course not, the two are linked and will remain so. The Marshal is a GREAT class and has seen more use then many other core classes in my campaigns, and it's FREE on the WotC website, so why not use it anywhere and everywhere they want?</p><p></p><p>30 years? Anyway, ending all the names in 'loth never did much for me, but I really wish they had common names and names they call themselves. I can't see folks knowing what the race calls themselves, nor the race having silly names for themselves. But hey, you're not getting the book anyway, so you don't need to worry about integrating them into your campaign. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vocenoctum, post: 2942956, member: 2477"] They did a book on NPC's early in 3e and it tanked, IIRC. They've been expanding NPC's and encoutners in many books, and while ENWorld may dislike it, I'd think WotC has been watching feedback closely enough to know what people that are actually buying their books want. They may have done too many lairs, or too many classed creatures, but I don't think the lairs or stats themselves are a bad idea. I'd assume it's because you simply can't drop in psionics in teh book. You can't print every power a psion uses to fulfill the encounter, though you can quickly and easily explain a scouts abilties or a marshal's. Does that mean they shouldn't have D&D RPG monsters in DDM then? Of course not, the two are linked and will remain so. The Marshal is a GREAT class and has seen more use then many other core classes in my campaigns, and it's FREE on the WotC website, so why not use it anywhere and everywhere they want? 30 years? Anyway, ending all the names in 'loth never did much for me, but I really wish they had common names and names they call themselves. I can't see folks knowing what the race calls themselves, nor the race having silly names for themselves. But hey, you're not getting the book anyway, so you don't need to worry about integrating them into your campaign. :) [/QUOTE]
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