Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 5903648" data-attributes="member: 92511">As I said in whatever other &quot;Monster Manual&quot; thread we had the other week wherein KM also presented this idea, it's a cool concept for a supplemental work...to serve this &quot;underserved&quot; population, you perceive. A &quot;Complete Book of Lairs&quot; or the &quot;The Encounter Builders Handbook&quot; or some such.It sounds like a really cool book. But it, quite simply, is not a D&amp;D &quot;Monster Manual&quot;...it's a &quot;Monster's Home &amp; Garden&quot; or &quot;Monster Mini-adventures&quot;...or something.I am sorry the alphabetical encyclopedic formatting is too passe for you. But it is clearly the easiest most intuitive way of presenting a...ya know, encyclopedia of creatures to use in D&amp;D. Something I can use in &quot;prep&quot; or I can use on the fly, as needed. Cuz when I decide the time is ripe for, say, a troll, I can just look up &quot;Troll.&quot;If I need a spider, I should not be going to an index to be told &quot;See under Drow.&quot; I should be going to &quot;S&quot;. But wait! I want that other kind of spider...was that in Gloomwood Forest or Ettercap Village? Oh, and I need a dire wolf...now was that &quot;Gobin Encampment&quot; or &quot;Hill Giant Homestead&quot;? Let alone that the formatting then allows you to use each of these &quot;appropriate collections&quot; of creatures and their lairs, once. Then every orc camp the players see, &quot;Oh yeah, the treasure room and the chieftain's chambers are down this way...remember the last three times?&quot;It's a cool concept for a book. It is! That book is some kind of collection of pre-made encounters/adventures...it just isn't the D&amp;D Monster Manual.--SD</blockquote>

[QUOTE="steeldragons, post: 5903648, member: 92511"] As I said in whatever other "Monster Manual" thread we had the other week wherein KM also presented this idea, it's a cool concept for a supplemental work...to serve this "underserved" population, you perceive. A "Complete Book of Lairs" or the "The Encounter Builders Handbook" or some such. It sounds like a really cool book. But it, quite simply, is not a D&D "Monster Manual"...it's a "Monster's Home & Garden" or "Monster Mini-adventures"...or something. I am sorry the alphabetical encyclopedic formatting is too passe for you. But it is clearly the easiest most intuitive way of presenting a...ya know, encyclopedia of creatures to use in D&D. Something I can use in "prep" or I can use on the fly, as needed. Cuz when I decide the time is ripe for, say, a troll, I can just look up "Troll." If I need a spider, I should not be going to an index to be told "[I]See under Drow." [/I]I should be going to "S". But wait! I want that other kind of spider...was that in [I]Gloomwood Forest[/I] or[I] Ettercap Village[/I]? Oh, and I need a dire wolf...now was that[I] "Gobin Encampment" or "Hill Giant Homestead"?[/I] Let alone that the formatting then allows you to use each of these "appropriate collections" of creatures and their lairs, once. Then every orc camp the players see, "Oh yeah, the treasure room and the chieftain's chambers are down this way...remember the last three times?" It's a cool concept for a book. It is! That book is some kind of collection of pre-made encounters/adventures...it just isn't the D&D Monster Manual. --SD [/QUOTE]

Verification