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<blockquote data-quote="alsih2o" data-source="post: 2064149" data-attributes="member: 4790"><p>We need better references. This hobby is the greatest, but it is so poorly organized as to hinder fun.</p><p></p><p> I have a Druid in my party who is fond of Call Lightning. It would be fun and interesting to throw a monster or two at her that is immune to electrical effects. It is her first campaign and a lot of things players tend to meta-game around are all new to her.</p><p></p><p> So, the easy solution is to look in the monster index under Electrical Immunity, right?</p><p></p><p> Wrong. There isn't one. I have no way I have found of choosing amongst the Electrically Immune baddies or Flying baddies or Immune to Mind Control baddies.</p><p></p><p> Within the taxonomical system we have (Outsider, Monstrous Humanoid, Undead Against Hit Dice And CR) shouldn't there be some way to look up monsters with specific powers or immunities?</p><p></p><p> I can always come to ENWorld and ask <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> but it seems that someone in the industry, perhaps someone who wants my ENnies vote next year (?), would put together a powers based index of all the critters they can. Does anyone else here think this product would be amongst their first buys?</p><p></p><p> EDIT: Thinking on this more- Do you think that the inherent popularity and usefulness of such a product would encourage publishers to make more Open Content Monsters?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alsih2o, post: 2064149, member: 4790"] We need better references. This hobby is the greatest, but it is so poorly organized as to hinder fun. I have a Druid in my party who is fond of Call Lightning. It would be fun and interesting to throw a monster or two at her that is immune to electrical effects. It is her first campaign and a lot of things players tend to meta-game around are all new to her. So, the easy solution is to look in the monster index under Electrical Immunity, right? Wrong. There isn't one. I have no way I have found of choosing amongst the Electrically Immune baddies or Flying baddies or Immune to Mind Control baddies. Within the taxonomical system we have (Outsider, Monstrous Humanoid, Undead Against Hit Dice And CR) shouldn't there be some way to look up monsters with specific powers or immunities? I can always come to ENWorld and ask :) but it seems that someone in the industry, perhaps someone who wants my ENnies vote next year (?), would put together a powers based index of all the critters they can. Does anyone else here think this product would be amongst their first buys? EDIT: Thinking on this more- Do you think that the inherent popularity and usefulness of such a product would encourage publishers to make more Open Content Monsters? [/QUOTE]
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