No Monsters?

[LostSoul]

So I had another one of those crazy ideas. What if you had no monsters?

Every creature in the game uses the Class & Level rules that PCs use. This is how it works now, for the most part, but you'd have to make all those neat-o abilities monsters get available as Feats.

Just a random thought.

 

[haiiro]

OK, I'll bite: if there aren't any monsters, which creatures will be using the class/level system? Just PC races and animals? Who/what will be taking advantage of the "converted monster abilities as feats" idea?

I think a monster-free game qould be quite viable, although I'd much prefer one with at least the occasional fantastic encounter. My longest running campaign was quite low on monsters, and the focus was heavily on politics, war and interaction with the PC races (mainly humans). It was a blast.

 

[hong]

So I had another one of those crazy ideas. What if you had no monsters?

Any human-only game has no monsters.


Hong "so to speak" Ooi

 

[MarauderX]

I think what you are saying is you want to switch the monster stats to be PC-like stats... so that all the critters will have the same sort of character sheets even.

The way I see it, that has already happened, as in the MM each creature has every attribute listed already, and the special abilities would be more like feats or class abilities. It's up to you, but I don't think there is much you can do that hasn't been done already.