Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
White Dwarf Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Nest
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
EN Publishing
Twitter
BlueSky
Facebook
Instagram
EN World
BlueSky
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
Twitch
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Monster Manual IV vs. Tome of Horrors III
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="ninstar" data-source="post: 3008783" data-attributes="member: 31443"><p>Hmmm . . .MM IV</p><p></p><p>The new Stat Block format may seem to some to be simplified, but when you don't want to use the default hit points and you have to look up the monster's type to figure out which dice to roll (Sorry, never did bother to memorize the stats for types) it can get really annoying. I get that I can interpret the sample encounters in order to get a general idea of what the organization of a creature, but I really liked it better in the old format. Other than that, I can't find a thing wrong with the new stat block format that isn't a direct result of my having to learn a whole new format when I'm used to the old format that I learned from the previous 12 books I've read. (Switching back and forth between the two formats promises migraines to come as well.)</p><p></p><p>That said, I need to throw my lot in with the people who like the expanded details, like the ecology sections, common tactics, societies, etc. If they redid all the monster books with this level of detail I'd rebuy them all. But I'd prefer either a better detailed/organized stat block, or the old one, please.</p><p></p><p>I was disappointed by the repettitive monsters, but I've come to expect them in all honesty. (How many books are the Githyanki in now?) The Spawn of Tiamat are mostly inspiring me to buy the Dragonlance Setting so that I can have the old Draconians back, though they are kinda neat. This many pages devoted to a couple of themes made the book a disappointment to me. Not that there weren't some cool new things in there too. There really were.</p><p></p><p>I'd like WOTC to create a "Big Book Of Advanced Humanoids", not so much so that I could buy it (I might decide to pass, actually) but so that they could get it out of their system and come up with some new monsters. </p><p></p><p>My Faves from the book: Inferno Spiders and Tomb Spiders, the Balhannoth, and the Xern.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ninstar, post: 3008783, member: 31443"] Hmmm . . .MM IV The new Stat Block format may seem to some to be simplified, but when you don't want to use the default hit points and you have to look up the monster's type to figure out which dice to roll (Sorry, never did bother to memorize the stats for types) it can get really annoying. I get that I can interpret the sample encounters in order to get a general idea of what the organization of a creature, but I really liked it better in the old format. Other than that, I can't find a thing wrong with the new stat block format that isn't a direct result of my having to learn a whole new format when I'm used to the old format that I learned from the previous 12 books I've read. (Switching back and forth between the two formats promises migraines to come as well.) That said, I need to throw my lot in with the people who like the expanded details, like the ecology sections, common tactics, societies, etc. If they redid all the monster books with this level of detail I'd rebuy them all. But I'd prefer either a better detailed/organized stat block, or the old one, please. I was disappointed by the repettitive monsters, but I've come to expect them in all honesty. (How many books are the Githyanki in now?) The Spawn of Tiamat are mostly inspiring me to buy the Dragonlance Setting so that I can have the old Draconians back, though they are kinda neat. This many pages devoted to a couple of themes made the book a disappointment to me. Not that there weren't some cool new things in there too. There really were. I'd like WOTC to create a "Big Book Of Advanced Humanoids", not so much so that I could buy it (I might decide to pass, actually) but so that they could get it out of their system and come up with some new monsters. My Faves from the book: Inferno Spiders and Tomb Spiders, the Balhannoth, and the Xern. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Monster Manual IV vs. Tome of Horrors III
Top
