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<blockquote data-quote="neobolts" data-source="post: 4315365" data-attributes="member: 65244"><p>Monster Manual: variations within monsters is great for building encounters, but it feels like a few staple monsters are missing now.</p><p></p><p>To preface: I'm on board with 4e. I think the streamlined combat leaves more room for world-building and storytelling during sessions. But the MM cuts are puzzling at times.</p><p></p><p>I haven't been looking for missing monsters, it's just that the monsters I'm picking for my adventures are turning out to be omitted. Maybe I'm just unlucky...</p><p></p><p>Some of the earlier ones I looked for were a bit more obscure...</p><p><strong>violet shrieker</strong></p><p><strong>xill</strong></p><p><strong>formian </strong>(ant-people)</p><p></p><p>Some of this was due to our 4e campaign being a "next-gen" continuation of a 3e campaign. Not too surprised those things got cut.</p><p></p><p>For fun I wanted to see how the nymph worked in 3e...alas, not there.</p><p><strong>nymph</strong></p><p></p><p>A lot of the good-aligned stuff was dropped to make room for more baddies, and some things made logical shifts to unaligned. But nymphs are classic. Hopefully they will show up in a future book.</p><p></p><p>But this one tonight really caught me by surprise...centaur is absent. Centaurs are a core fantasy monster race and are prominent in mythology. How did they not make the cut?</p><p><strong>centaur</strong></p><p></p><p>Anything else missing that has affected people's campaigns or shocked them to see it missing?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="neobolts, post: 4315365, member: 65244"] Monster Manual: variations within monsters is great for building encounters, but it feels like a few staple monsters are missing now. To preface: I'm on board with 4e. I think the streamlined combat leaves more room for world-building and storytelling during sessions. But the MM cuts are puzzling at times. I haven't been looking for missing monsters, it's just that the monsters I'm picking for my adventures are turning out to be omitted. Maybe I'm just unlucky... Some of the earlier ones I looked for were a bit more obscure... [B]violet shrieker xill formian [/B](ant-people) Some of this was due to our 4e campaign being a "next-gen" continuation of a 3e campaign. Not too surprised those things got cut. For fun I wanted to see how the nymph worked in 3e...alas, not there. [B]nymph[/B] A lot of the good-aligned stuff was dropped to make room for more baddies, and some things made logical shifts to unaligned. But nymphs are classic. Hopefully they will show up in a future book. But this one tonight really caught me by surprise...centaur is absent. Centaurs are a core fantasy monster race and are prominent in mythology. How did they not make the cut? [B]centaur[/B] Anything else missing that has affected people's campaigns or shocked them to see it missing? [/QUOTE]
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