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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6050740" data-attributes="member: 42582">I don't understand what the "story" is in the dog pack mauling rules that you lauded and [MENTION=87792]Neonchameleon[/MENTION] quoted. To me, they just look like clunky mechanics.I also noticed this bit in the rules:Further, the defender suffers a 2-point penalty to all rolls and cannot use the ensnared limb for any action other than spending 5 seconds attempting to free it of the canine’s holdWhat happens if the half-ogre fighter who has a dog latched onto his/her arm wants to start using the dog as a battering ram? Or to fling it through the air as a missile weapon? These look to me like not just clunky but bad, because overly prescriptive, mechanics.You didn't reply to my post 40 upthread. Can you please provide an example from the 2nd ed Monstrous Manual which has more flavour text than the same monster in the 4e MM?I discussed goblins, spiders, azers, galeb duhr and zombies upthread. I also pointed out the entries for Demons and Devils, which have more information than any comparable entry in a 1st ed AD&D MM (I believe these monsters are not present in the Monstrous Manual).I may well have been cherry-picking examples - which ones should I be looking at?</blockquote>