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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aeolius" data-source="post: 5722036" data-attributes="member: 2072">The 4e MM hag fewer hags than the 3e MM. That was another reason I was less than enamored with 4e. I wanted to test the new ruleset by fleshing out a campaign concept I had kept on the back-burner for years. Alas, the game needed greenhags, druids, and the awaken spell, none of which were in the 4e MM, PH, and DMG.I am aware that those bits ended up in later books, but it was too late by that point. I am also aware that I could have converted those elements, but I tend to side on the side of laziness when it comes to the rules. It was easier simply to stick with 3.5e/Pathfinder, so that is what I did.Granted, my approach to the rules is hardly the norm. I like to run my games "loosey goosey". Sometimes I start a game session with nothing but a handful of notes and a cold beer. I enjoy ad-libbing. Running a game on-the-fly yields all sorts of serendipitous surprises.Also, I have not run a face-to-face game in nearly seventeen years. Since that point it's been play-by-post and chat-based games, for me, neither of which need be mored down in stats and numbers. I understand that, over the years, D&D has become more of a mindset, for me, and less of a checklist of dice to roll during combat.  I also recognize the hypocrisy I present, enjoying a bit of fluff in my monster books, yet rarely using 5% of the monsters in a given monster manual because none are applicable to the terrain where my game is set. I enjoy making up my own critters, but I tend to use existing critters as a base. Remember the faerie dragon entry in the 1e MM2? It mentioned the lil' beasties' love of apple pies. That is the sort of memorable fluff I enjoy. The 1e MM mentioned that half-orcs could be of human, goblin, or hobgoblin stock. That bit of fluff could shape an entire campaign. While I find the 3.5e MM to be the best of the Monster Manuals to date, I'd still like to see a 5e MM written to resemble Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide.</blockquote>

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