Mustrum_Ridcully
Hero
2KM:
Reading your last post mentioning the "Adventure Seeds" from the later MMs, thinking of the "Ecology of..." articles and the World & Monsters, I think there is a reasonable hope that the MM will not just contain "XP Bags" but also some fluff to inspire monsters.
The designers did put some effort and creating the "Implied Setting" of 4E, and after I read the R&C and the W&M, I felt there were a lot of interesting stuff in there that made me want to use. That never happened in this magnitude with the implied setting of the 3E PHB.
It is certainly possible, but unlikely that all the effort the story team spend will go lost. I think there is plenty of room for side bars throughout the core rule books (including the MM). (Especially considering that the Phane stat-block seems to fit into a single column, and each (unique) monster is supposed to have an at least an entire page, right?
And if I am wrong and you buy the 4E MM and are disappointed, the maniac cackling you'll here will not be me enjoying the satisfaction of luring an innocent D&D fan into the perils of 4E, I promise. Hahaha... err... look behind you... *runs away*)
Reading your last post mentioning the "Adventure Seeds" from the later MMs, thinking of the "Ecology of..." articles and the World & Monsters, I think there is a reasonable hope that the MM will not just contain "XP Bags" but also some fluff to inspire monsters.
The designers did put some effort and creating the "Implied Setting" of 4E, and after I read the R&C and the W&M, I felt there were a lot of interesting stuff in there that made me want to use. That never happened in this magnitude with the implied setting of the 3E PHB.
It is certainly possible, but unlikely that all the effort the story team spend will go lost. I think there is plenty of room for side bars throughout the core rule books (including the MM). (Especially considering that the Phane stat-block seems to fit into a single column, and each (unique) monster is supposed to have an at least an entire page, right?
And if I am wrong and you buy the 4E MM and are disappointed, the maniac cackling you'll here will not be me enjoying the satisfaction of luring an innocent D&D fan into the perils of 4E, I promise. Hahaha... err... look behind you... *runs away*)