No Frequency for Monsters?! (just noticed!)

[Crothian]

Shouldn't it be Knowledge (Underdark), Knowledge (Underground Nature), or Knowledge (Caverns)?

Seriously, if all you want to do is change what the skill is called more power to you. A rose by any other name and all that. I don't consider what the skill is called a problem; names of things like this that are so easy to change when I need to are just too easy a fix to worry about.

 

[Shadowslayer]

It was really onlu useful as far as designing your own random encounter tables. It seems to be established now that most DMs don't even use tables that way, so the the inclusion of common, uncommon, rare, would probably be largely irrelevant to most people's games.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

What I really miss is the %liar stat. Really useful when you need to know how truthful a monster is.

 

[Gentlegamer]

It really doesn't bother me. What were those values used for anyway?

For placing the monster in the appropriate slot on the wandering monster table based on frequency.

 

[Crothian]

For placing the monster in the appropriate slot on the wandering monster table based on frequency.

What wondering monster tables? I don't recall seeing any in a Wizards product.

 

[Gentlegamer]

What wondering monster tables? I don't recall seeing any in a Wizards product.

AD&D wandering monster tables. Presumably they were also used in the WOTC published AD&D products, such as the late printing DMG.

 

[Prince of Happiness]

What wondering monster tables? I don't recall seeing any in a Wizards product.

Bad memory then. Reached for the first WOTC product on my desk The Sunless Citadel, open the front cover, look at the table of contents:

"Sidebar: Wandering Monsters.......................9"

 

[Crothian]

AD&D wandering monster tables. Presumably they were also used in the WOTC published AD&D products, such as the late printing DMG.

And those matter for third edition?

 

[Crothian]

Bad memory then. Reached for the first WOTC product on my desk The Sunless Citadel, open the front cover, look at the table of contents:

"Sidebar: Wandering Monsters.......................9"

Good, that helps prove that it is antiquated and left behind.

 

[Gentlegamer]

And those matter for third edition?

Frequency of appearance for monsters is a useful tool. It was present in AD&D, but for some reason removed in d20 Fantasy.