Monster Manual: What's missing which has impacted you?

[neobolts]

There doesn't seem enough low-level critter variety.....

Maybe this'll help...

"Clustered" Heroic Tier mobs by level range (with quantity), excluding PC race mobs

Rat (Dire, Giant, Swarm) 1-2 (3 mobs)
Kobold 1-4 (6 mobs)
Basic Undead (Skeleton, Zombie, Ghoul, Ghost, Skull Lord, Wraith) 1-10 (17 mobs)
Goblinoid(Goblin/Hobgoblin/Bugbear) 1-8 (16 mobs)

Doppelganger 3-8 (2 mobs)
Basic Devils 3-11 (5 mobs)

Ettercap 4-5 (2 mobs)
Lizardfolk 4-6 (4 mobs)
Orc 4-9 (7 mobs)

Gnoll 5-8 (4 mobs)

Shadar-kai 6-8 (4 mobs)
Troglodyte 6-8 (4 mobs)
Harpy 6-9 (2 mobs)
Sahuagin 6-10 (4 mobs)
Basic Demons 6-13 (4 mobs)

Satyr 7-8 (2 mobs)
Grick 7-9 (2 mobs)
Basic Hags 7-10 (2 mobs)
Snaketongue (Yuan-ti) 7-12 (5 mobs)

Oni 8-10 (2 mobs)
Basic Ogres 8-11 (4 mobs)
Galeb Duhr 8-11 (2 mobs)

 

[Rechan]

I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) the Berbalang is from 1e.

Maybe this'll help...

He is right. Almost ALL of those are humanoid (or humanoid to some extent - demons/devils).

Outside of the undead, the rats, and the gricks, that's all of it.

Oh hey, you left out spiders/snakes/etc.

 

[LowSpine]

This is a bit different from what you mean, it is more of an error, but I was looking for a bat swarm. There are monsters that have a bat swarm as part of their encounter examples - but there is no bat swarm.

Not that I have found so far.

 

[Contents May Vary]

The link I gave has several low level critters:

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=229226

 

[Rechan]

This thread has links to The_jester also doing 2nd and 3rd level monsters.

In the 2nd Level monster thread, he has converted a bat swarm.

 

[lukelightning]

He is right. Almost ALL of those are humanoid (or humanoid to some extent - demons/devils).

That's because D&D is the game of killing things and taking their stuff, and humanoids have the most stuff!

only thing that comes to mind are Skum; a friend of mine actually created the Skum, and the Aboleth Servitor do not look like his Skum, and he is sad.

No offense to your friend, but "skum"?!? Sounds more like a supervillain than a monster. Plus we already have kuotoa and sahau... shahua... shahua... those sharky fish people. You want a deep dark dank fishy monster that serves the aboleth? Kuotoa fit the bill perfectly.

Yeah, I did notice the normal animals are gone. I wonder if WotC is trying to move away from people killing elephants and lions. Maybe the 4e design team joined PETA.

I think that it's the fact that most animals would end up clustered at lower levels, so the MM wouldn't have a good spread of challenges.

 

[Nebulous]

check out http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drfe/20080620a

Holy crap, that WAS a good article. That is the sort of interesting stuff i'd like to see in the Monster Manual, rather than just stat blocks and zero info about monster background.

Maybe they stripped it out with the intention of leaking it all back in over the DDI.

 

[Nebulous]

When was the last time you ever got into a fight with a grell? When was the last time you ever even saw (or heard of) a Berbalang?

Seriously... what the hell is a Berbalang and where's my centaurs?

Berbalang is actually WAY back from the 1e Fiend Folio. It was an interesting monster...originally. I haven't even looked at the entry now but i'm sure it has no flavor, just something to stab a sword into.

 

[Jedi_Solo]

Flumph!! (because someone had to say it)

And something different that is missing is a full alphabetical list of the monsters with page numbers. There is the CR list in the back which is really cool and I love it and I want all MM books to have one. There is also the shortened Table of Contents in the front of the book, but that list has Abomination but doesn't list out what is listed as an Abomination.

For example, what if I wanted the stats for the Terrasque and couldn't remember what CR it was? Where can I find it? (Hint: Not under T.)

 

[Cirex]

Nymphs!

In all seriousness, I was hoping we would get way more kind of humans (maybe some article in the future) and I think I will be missing Frost Giants. I will just reskin Fire Giants though.