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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 2980069" data-attributes="member: 5100">Thank you.  I'm more than a bit sick of the attitude some people have taken with people who didn't like the book.  It's like some sort of inquisition.Heck, I suspected I wouldn't like the book, but I took the time to actually go to B&N and look through the thing, then post things I liked and things I didn't.  When I had problems with the Spawn, which do take up a significant portion of the book, I was not allowed to leave it at "I don't like 'em and hope they aren't indicative of future developments at WotC".  Instead, I got pushed into having to be antagonistic about it (granted, that took place on a day I was in a work-related foul mood to begin with).There are several of us who don't like the book for one reason or another.  That may be that a huge chunk is taken up by a flagship monster that is uninteresting, or that there are a lot of pages taken up by non-Monster Manual content, or because the new layout takes up too much space and the book is thinner.  It may even be more than one of the above (I'll take 'a' and 'b', thanks).It's lapdog howling about how closed-minded and horrible people who don't like this stuff are that make me almost want to see MM4 turn into a money-loser.  Almost, but not quite.  Because I really don't want to have bad things happen to people who disagree with me.  I do want products that support the style of game I like to play at a good cost:benefit ratio.  MM4 appears to be just below that threshold, IMO.  If it inserted some more cool monsters in place of either the classed critters or the Spawn, it'd probably have me.  I may still pick up a copy because the monsters that are cool, are really cool -- and because I'll buy it at Amazon pricing, not LGS pricing.  It will remain a reluctant purchase, though, because it toes that line.</blockquote>

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