Things that Should have been in the original 3e Monster Manual

[Aeolius]

...and 'loths aren't even mentioned.

Just wait until the 3e Fiend Folio

 

[Staffan]

Just wait until the 3e Fiend Folio

Sure, and there are a few in Manual of the Planes, but the question was what was missing from the core MM.

 

[Tonguez]

Rather than Wilderness Encounter Tables I'd like an Index listing creatures by Terrain. I can then apply my own numbers to the creatures I want to use inorder to have my encounter table...

Yeah Human stat blcok

 

[bwgwl]

Rather than Wilderness Encounter Tables I'd like an Index listing creatures by Terrain. I can then apply my own numbers to the creatures I want to use inorder to have my encounter table...

isn't that in the DMG? (pp. 133-135)

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

I heard there was a very useful article in Dragon when 3e came out on how to build your own monsters. I would have liked to see something like that in an MM.

Mark me down for extensive humanoid stat blocks. I love how Hackmaster does this. Human bandits? There they are. Dwarven beggar? There it is.

And I would gladly shell out big bucks for a larger, more useful book. Not that $30 is piddling, but I'd pay $40-$50 for a higher page count, more monsters, etc. Maybe (taking another page from Hackmaster) they could do a MM Lite, a softcover with 150-200 pages of the most classic monsters for 20-25 bucks, and a Superheavy MM Deluxe like I mentioned above, with -everything- for hardcores like me.

 

[aurin777]

Xvarts! They forgot xvarts!
~~Brandon (Singular fan of Year of the Xvart)

 

[thullgrim]

Accurate ECL listings.... no really I think that would have been great.

 

[BryonD]

2. An entry for Humans, like the ones for Elves, Dwarves etc.

I'll be contrary on this one.

I'd prefer they dump dwarves and elves, etc OUT of the MM. We already know everything we need to in order to use them. Save space and add a different monster.

 

[Zander]

Hello S'mon! Hope you're well.

Agree with all four points especially:

3. The rest of the missing monsters from the 1e Monster Manual.
3. Death Knights, & various other classic monsters.

Quite a few monsters that wound up in ToH should have been in the 3E MM.

 

[Mercule]

Re: Re: Things that Should have been in the original 3e Monster Manual

I'd prefer they dump dwarves and elves, etc OUT of the MM. We already know everything we need to in order to use them. Save space and add a different monster.

Does that apply to orcs, kobolds, and all the other monsters now "classable"?

Personally, I'd like to see all the races/species handled identically, whatever the method. Let the DM decide what is available and what isn't. I like having a few "suggestions" in the PH, but they should all be in the MM.


Also, I'd love to see the Death Knight as a core template. That's the only major (non unique) type that is plentiful on my world and not handled by the core rules. Honestly, Death Knight is more useful to me than Lich.