732
Subj : Re: Monster Manual
To   : All
From : mbottorff@sprintmail.com
Date : Tue Dec 05 2000 12:53 am

From: mbottorff@sprintmail.com (Michelle & Boyd Bottorff)
Subject: Re: Monster Manual
Organization: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E0?=



> On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Michelle & Boyd Bottorff wrote:
> 
> > > I received the Monster Manual today. Leafing through it, I noticed two
> > > things:
> > > 
> > > 1. No more green slime. I don't know if they eliminated other old
> > > monsters, but I noticed this one missing for some reason.
> > 
> > Well, green slime wasn't exactly the most... ecologically stable?  Nah,
> > the big problem with it was the "zap, you're dead" syndrome.  There
> > wasn't much point to using it beyond doing a quick-kill on overly
> > powerful characters.
> 
> <snort>  Your average dungeon as portrayed in xD&D isn't ecologically
> stable...either that, or there are enough adventurers to be a food source.

Maybe, but green slime falls into the "quick DM fix"-- a one-shot, live
or die encounter designed to (hopefully) peg the adventurers who got too
powerful for the DM.  Similarly designed as the venerable, but still
beloved rust monster, and the less-venerable, less-beloved disenchanter.

Bah.  Idiot DMs.  Don't give them so much without repercussions.  And if
the players are getting too cockey, introduce them to Tucker's Kobolds!
"They've set up a toll booth in the narrow mountaing pass and strangling
the trade between our countries... we need our heros/fearless leaders
[whichever the case is at this point] to roust out a a pack of
kobolds..."

-- Boyd

--
|Fidonet:  mbottorff@sprintmail.com
|Internet: scott@conchbbs.com
|
| Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own.


---
 # Origin:  (1:106/357.99)
 * Origin: ConchGate (1:106/357.0)

.

0