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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 6210731" data-attributes="member: 6677017">How much page count would bother you? In the kind of system I'm talking about, you need a single one to two digit number and a word or term for each race. You could easily fit every intelligent creature in a typical MM on a single small-print page as an appendix. The rules for how to use those numbers would take up less than a column in the DMG if you used 3e size fonts.  Ideally, you wouldn't even need the number, since it would use the monster level already listed for encounter design purposes.I wouldn't want monstrous PCs in the majority of my games. Heck, I don't even like using things like warforged and dragonborn. But when I do want the monsters, I'd much rather have a simple and consistent system with the numbers already listed than require every DM to do-it-themselves, or buy a book that has overly complex rules to allow you to play half-*** 1 HD ogres and minotaurs.I do, however, want this to be optional and firmly in the hands of the DM.</blockquote>