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<blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 3817410" data-attributes="member: 54846">WotC, Give Me the Monsters You Expect Me to Use. Not the rare creature that fills my Iconic need, but a monster that I will WANT to throw at my PCs because it's exciting.&nbsp; Not because it's just Odd (Digester, Delver), but because it's cool and unique. I want my players awed and scared and scrambling to deal with their current threat. What I want for the MM is basically for it to be Cram Packed with monsters. I want it so full of monsters they have to jump up and down on the cover just to make it shut. I don't want say, a hundred monsters, and that includes four examples of every humanoid or semi-humanoid race. And I want monsters that are good, not just a new ugly face with some HD and AC. I want story function and game function. It won't anger me if the carrion crawler or the hydra isn't present, as long as there are three monsters in their place that I will look at them and say 'I must put this in my next adventure'. Monsters, with abilities that inspire, are better to me than monsters that 'well if I ever need a creature that fills this ecological niche in this environment at this level, I guess this will do'.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rechan, post: 3817410, member: 54846"] WotC, Give Me the Monsters You Expect Me to Use. Not the rare creature that fills my Iconic need, but a monster that I will WANT to throw at my PCs because it's [i]exciting[/i]. Not because it's just Odd (Digester, Delver), but because it's [i]cool[/i] and [i]unique[/i]. I want my players awed and scared and scrambling to deal with their current threat. What I want for the MM is basically for it to be Cram Packed with monsters. I want it so full of monsters they have to jump up and down on the cover just to make it shut. I don't want say, a hundred monsters, and that includes four examples of every humanoid or semi-humanoid race. And I want monsters that are [i]good[/i], not just a new ugly face with some HD and AC. I want [i]story function[/i] and [i]game function[/i]. It won't anger me if the carrion crawler or the hydra isn't present, as long as there are three monsters in their place that I will look at them and say 'I must put this in my next adventure'. Monsters, with abilities that inspire, are better to me than monsters that 'well if I ever need a creature that fills this ecological niche in this environment at this level, I guess this will do'. [/QUOTE]

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