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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5826114" data-attributes="member: 2067">I want a Book of Interesting Encounters.So, I want them to support the Three Pillars. I want traps and hazards for exploration. I want organizations and beasts and neutral parties "good guys" for interaction. I want horrible monsters and implacable villains combat. Weather effects. Lairs. Terrain. I want "creatures" that fill these roles, too. Like, how ear seekers and rust monsters are essentially traps and hazards.I want them to be described so that I know how to run an encounter with them, whichever of the three pillars I use (so I know that rust monsters are mostly exploration challenges -- what happens if the PC's decide to kill it, or if they decide to try and domesticate it?; or orcs -- fight 'em, deal with 'em, and raid their camp, I need to know how to do all of that). I want plot threads, dangling hooks, and possible unique twists. I want allied creatures (do goblins domesticate wolves? do orcs hang out with giants?). I want stats that can answer me three basic questions: what can this thing do if it is an adversary? what can this thing do if it is an ally? what does this thing do when the PC's aren't around?I like the aspect of 4e making monster generation easy peasy, and making variants something very simple to do. I like the 2e aspect of extensive lore for each critter. I like the 3e aspect of critters for all the different pillars. I like the 1e aspect of weird critters. I don't just want a directory of stats (this is why the internet has Search). Every entry needs to inspire me to use it, and give me what I need to use it. I need a Book of Interesting Encounters, not just an Encyclopedia of Things to Kill for XP.</blockquote>

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