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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5375958" data-attributes="member: 82106">I think the point of a monster like this is that there are situations where it actually DOES make a good thematic monster. D&D could have stuck to a very small set of monsters thematic of the core expected campaigning environment, but all that does is narrow down the range of the game, or force DMs to reskin everything if they want a more exotic environment or a strange new threat.I mean sure, you could just have yet another kobold tribe or goblin horde and give them a few extra tricks that mechanically make them similar to kruthiks but OTOH if I want to create a strange new race of monsters that nobody has seen before or have a "we're not in Kansas anymore, Toto" sort of situation, or as another poster pointed out just have a world that has a bit different flavor where the wildlife is dangerous and rather insectoid then the kruthik is there for my use. Not every monster is ever going to be useful to every DM. There are monster types I've NEVER used in 30+ years of DMing, but they're there waiting for that one day when I say to myself "hey, I want something a bit different."Admittedly there ARE useless monsters. There are monsters that are less useful or redundant to other monsters. There are monsters who's 4e mechanics simply don't work very well too. I mean, there ARE a good 1000+ published 4e monsters in the MM series, not every one of them is going to be a home run.</blockquote>

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