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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 775519" data-attributes="member: 4937">All you are asking is to heavily restrict the ways in which you can make monsters. A low HD monster could never have a particularly fearsome power because such powers would increase thier CR higher than thier HD would warrant.&nbsp; This is true of essentially ALL the monsters in the books (otherwise we wouldn't worry about CR).All low HD monsters would be basically identical.&nbsp; Important powers would never appear above a certain level of HD.&nbsp; One can imagine having to remove poison from poisonous snakes, and preventing creatures with less than 15 HD from having gaze or sonic attacks.&nbsp;&nbsp; Birds might have to lose the power of natural flight before attaining 3 or 4 HD, and we'd otherwise end up with alot of the same sort of silliness as 1st level giants being medium sized creatures.Yes, it might be interesting to devise a system in which monsters were all parsed from the same monster construction rules and gained powers along monstrous feat paths in the same way as PC's, but it wouldn't be all that useful and it would result in alot of cookie cutter monsters.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 775519, member: 4937"] All you are asking is to heavily restrict the ways in which you can make monsters. A low HD monster could never have a particularly fearsome power because such powers would increase thier CR higher than thier HD would warrant. This is true of essentially ALL the monsters in the books (otherwise we wouldn't worry about CR). All low HD monsters would be basically identical. Important powers would never appear above a certain level of HD. One can imagine having to remove poison from poisonous snakes, and preventing creatures with less than 15 HD from having gaze or sonic attacks. Birds might have to lose the power of natural flight before attaining 3 or 4 HD, and we'd otherwise end up with alot of the same sort of silliness as 1st level giants being medium sized creatures. Yes, it might be interesting to devise a system in which monsters were all parsed from the same monster construction rules and gained powers along monstrous feat paths in the same way as PC's, but it wouldn't be all that useful and it would result in alot of cookie cutter monsters. [/QUOTE]

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