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<blockquote data-quote="med stud" data-source="post: 4183580" data-attributes="member: 1211">Back when I started, the game I played had sparse information about creatures. It was like &quot;griffons are a mix between eagle and lion. They like to eat horses. They can be trained to riding animals, but it takes a rider with strong will.&quot; That was it. The same thing with all creatures.It didn't stop me from using the creatures and I didn't feel insecure or unsure of what I should do. I took the monsters and innovated settings for them. A ghoul kingdom, different orc tribes, I made the svartalfs to master blacksmiths. Those short descriptions gave me a sense of creative freedom that I think would have been quelched if I had long entries on creatures, their ecologies, how they bred and so on.Experienced DMs will know how the creatures were in previous editions, but the newbie DMs can come up with stories of their own. I don't see that as a limitation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="med stud, post: 4183580, member: 1211"] Back when I started, the game I played had sparse information about creatures. It was like "griffons are a mix between eagle and lion. They like to eat horses. They can be trained to riding animals, but it takes a rider with strong will." That was it. The same thing with all creatures. It didn't stop me from using the creatures and I didn't feel insecure or unsure of what I should do. I took the monsters and innovated settings for them. A ghoul kingdom, different orc tribes, I made the svartalfs to master blacksmiths. Those short descriptions gave me a sense of creative freedom that I think would have been quelched if I had long entries on creatures, their ecologies, how they bred and so on. Experienced DMs will know [i]how the creatures were in previous editions[/i], but the newbie DMs can come up with stories of their own. I don't see that as a limitation. [/QUOTE]

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