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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5966387" data-attributes="member: 22779">The only problem is, you've now made DMing a job instead of a hobby.&nbsp; If I can't plop down half a dozen creatures in five minutes, it's too much work for me.&nbsp; I don't want to HAVE to customize every creature through a laborious process (see 3e D&amp;D monster advancement rules) in order to get a different experience.I want to be able to pick up the monster, know roughly what it's going to do, and use that.&nbsp; If I want a different sort of orc, I'll pick the skirmisher orc, or the soldier orc or the controller orc and use that.&nbsp; If I have to start from a baseline &quot;orc&quot; and then build each one individually by adding class levels (again, a la 3e D&amp;D), I'm not going to.&nbsp; I'll use different monsters.&nbsp; Too much work.The monster manual monsters are NOT the definitive creature.&nbsp; There is no such thing as a baseline orc or goblin or anything else.&nbsp; That's not what a monster manual is for.&nbsp; A monster manual is for providing opponents or allies (or possibly bystanders) for the PC's.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 5966387, member: 22779"] The only problem is, you've now made DMing a job instead of a hobby. If I can't plop down half a dozen creatures in five minutes, it's too much work for me. I don't want to HAVE to customize every creature through a laborious process (see 3e D&D monster advancement rules) in order to get a different experience. I want to be able to pick up the monster, know roughly what it's going to do, and use that. If I want a different sort of orc, I'll pick the skirmisher orc, or the soldier orc or the controller orc and use that. If I have to start from a baseline "orc" and then build each one individually by adding class levels (again, a la 3e D&D), I'm not going to. I'll use different monsters. Too much work. The monster manual monsters are NOT the definitive creature. There is no such thing as a baseline orc or goblin or anything else. That's not what a monster manual is for. A monster manual is for providing opponents or allies (or possibly bystanders) for the PC's. [/QUOTE]

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