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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9594843" data-attributes="member: 29398">In fairness, I do differentiate between the two: a monster is a creature or species that is not PC-playable and an NPC is one that potentially is.Thus, Hobgoblins are monsters unless they are PC-playable in this specific campaign.&nbsp; Humans, playable in pretty much every campaign ever, are never monsters by this definition (this is one area where 1e really made things confusing).Under these definitions, a monster can be designed any old which way you like in that there's neither need nor requirement to line them up with PCs of the same species.&nbsp; But once a species becomes PC-playable then what NPCs of that species can and can't do needs to match what PCs of that species can and can't do.The same is true of items.&nbsp; If an item is PC-usable then it should work the same when either an NPC or a monster is using it.&nbsp; If an item is not PC-usable, e.g. a 10-foot long Frost Giant's axe that no PC can ever hope to wield, then that axe can do whatever.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9594843, member: 29398"] In fairness, I do differentiate between the two: a monster is a creature or species that is not PC-playable and an NPC is one that potentially is. Thus, Hobgoblins are monsters unless they are PC-playable in this specific campaign. Humans, playable in pretty much every campaign ever, are never monsters by this definition (this is one area where 1e really made things confusing). Under these definitions, a monster can be designed any old which way you like in that there's neither need nor requirement to line them up with PCs of the same species. But once a species becomes PC-playable then what NPCs of that species can and can't do needs to match what PCs of that species can and can't do. The same is true of items. If an item is PC-usable then it should work the same when either an NPC or a monster is using it. If an item is not PC-usable, e.g. a 10-foot long Frost Giant's axe that no PC can ever hope to wield, then that axe can do whatever. [/QUOTE]

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