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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5722859" data-attributes="member: 2067">It sounds, if I'm reading you right, like you'd rather these rules be broad, rather than specific: general rules for social conflict, rather than specific rules for dealing with a succubus's machinations.So, it would stand to reason that you're more in favor of monster building rules like the 4e DMG rather than specific monster statblocks a la the MM, yea? Same general principle: they are the building blocks to arrange as the DM sees fit. I think there's room for both, myself. I'd like to see general rules for piercing disguises (which 4e kind of has, in terms of skill challenges and Insight vs. Bluff checks, and the like, though it's very free-form and open), and specific rules for piercing disguises of specific disguised creatures (which 4e currently mostly lacks). I'd like to see general rules for generating monster attack bonus and damage, and specific monsters with specific attack bonuses and damage rolls presented to me.The former is helpful when I'm thinking outside of the box, or when I have a lot of prep time. The latter is helpful as cherries to pick, as instant inspiration, or as a solid baseline. Toolboxes are useful to someone with a good vision of what they want to make, but some of us would be just fine having a ready-made product given to us (and perhaps using it in an unorthodox way). Not everyone has the time or inclination to give the game world context themselves. I know I like to fill my game with improv, which means that I depend upon context already existing. Knowing that kobolds are dragon servitors helps me to link this kobold encounter to some other encounter down the road with a dragon. It gives me paths to follow and backup when I inevitably flounder. Some do better with a toolbox, and I wouldn't argue against putting in a toolbox for those players, but I wouldn't want to remove the concrete examples, either, since some do better with Legos than they do with a saw, a hammer, some nails, and a block of wood.</blockquote>

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