Yeah, this surprised the hell out of me when it was released. The "rules" (PHB and most of DMG) I expected. Mundane equipment, I expected. Rules for creating magic items, okay, every magic item from the DMG, surprised. Every spell, a little surprised. The whole monster manual, very surprised.
Count me in for a ditto "Why?" --- Brad Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ryan S. Dancey > > > > If it was a octopus-headed humanoid, I'd call it infringing. > > Let's pose a different question. Why did WotC release the Mind Flayer OGC > at all? The skeletal outline of the creature virtually mandates that the > player have a copy of the MM and/or Psi Handbook in front of them during the > game, so that they can give the players a reasonable description of the > combat. The player must know what a mind flayer is in order to use it. > > This is in conflict with the trend to use boxed text for encounters, and to > make modules self-referencing rather than to demand that a player have their > own reference material in hand when running an encounter. > > I realize that the Mind Flayer's stats are all there, but a mind flayer is a > very complex creature. Presenting them in this way encourages its use as a > 'cardboard' encounter with very limited depth and creativity. It does a > disservice to players to cheapen a very cool creature in this way. Better > that it not be included at all then devalued by a lack of information. > > This also raises similar concerns with many other original creatures that > are sketchily presented in the Monster SRD. So I guess I'd like to hear a > bit more about the philosophy of what was included and what was left out, > and how the remaining bits would be used in your ideal world. > > -Brad > > PS- I am not asking to be handed more of WotC's IP. I am just trying to > understand the rationale behind what you have chosen to release. If it is > determined that the Monster sections need to be updated, now is the time to > do it (while they are still in draft form). > > _______________________________________________ > Ogf-l mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l ===== Jasyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." Ulysses, Alfred Lord Tennyson __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
