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[MONSTERS] Monster Advancement - Implied Simulationism
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<blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 5059943" data-attributes="member: 957"><p>Let's see if the board gods allow this through</p><p></p><p>I think I agree with your preference. However, it may be because we already have bugbears as a "goblin boss" option.</p><p></p><p>But either way I am comfortable that if you wanted a 12 HD Large Troll, you already have the tools to easily produce it. The RAW already created the pathway. For some reason they put a "Road Closed" sign up in front of the road. But it is a perfectly good road and just knocking down the sign seems smart, and frees us to focus energy on new areas.</p><p></p><p>Works for me.</p><p>Does this mean humans can have 1 or more racial HD?</p><p></p><p>I'm more a fan of having all the pieces than having big blocks already locked in. The modular solo and elite templates are very cool. But the idea of a bunch of pre-fabed giants for every CR drops my interest in a heartbeat. For one thing, by the time you have produced a table with every CR for every creature type you ahve gone through an over-blown exercise in data grinding and 90% of it will never even be potentially of use to me. What I mean there is, I may or may not ever decide I need a custom CR12 giant, but I am certain I won't need a custom CR11 and a CR12 custom giant and a CR13 custom giant and ...</p><p></p><p>And even with that, when I do decide I want a CR12 custom giant, it is going to be just that, custom. I don't want to take a stock chassis off the shelf and plug a few items into slots.</p><p></p><p>If you want to build a new system for expressing new creatures (or even new ways of expressing humans and elves) then I'm there.</p><p>But if you want to take the tools I already have and squeeze that into into a "correct" average answer on an oversized table, then I have no interest.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BryonD, post: 5059943, member: 957"] Let's see if the board gods allow this through I think I agree with your preference. However, it may be because we already have bugbears as a "goblin boss" option. But either way I am comfortable that if you wanted a 12 HD Large Troll, you already have the tools to easily produce it. The RAW already created the pathway. For some reason they put a "Road Closed" sign up in front of the road. But it is a perfectly good road and just knocking down the sign seems smart, and frees us to focus energy on new areas. Works for me. Does this mean humans can have 1 or more racial HD? I'm more a fan of having all the pieces than having big blocks already locked in. The modular solo and elite templates are very cool. But the idea of a bunch of pre-fabed giants for every CR drops my interest in a heartbeat. For one thing, by the time you have produced a table with every CR for every creature type you ahve gone through an over-blown exercise in data grinding and 90% of it will never even be potentially of use to me. What I mean there is, I may or may not ever decide I need a custom CR12 giant, but I am certain I won't need a custom CR11 and a CR12 custom giant and a CR13 custom giant and ... And even with that, when I do decide I want a CR12 custom giant, it is going to be just that, custom. I don't want to take a stock chassis off the shelf and plug a few items into slots. If you want to build a new system for expressing new creatures (or even new ways of expressing humans and elves) then I'm there. But if you want to take the tools I already have and squeeze that into into a "correct" average answer on an oversized table, then I have no interest. [/QUOTE]
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