Jerson: to je proste ruzne. Monster Manualy jsou knizky, ktere si budu kupovat vzdy, v kazde edici a dalo by se rict, ze tak jak nepotrebuji ruzne settingove nebo nejake power splat booky, tak MM v DnD je skoda nekoupit.
Protoze za svoje penize dostanes spousta monster s ilustracemi a neni nic lepsiho, nez proste rict: Riti se na vas TOHLE! misto popisu. Dostanes monstrum, ktere ma nejake statistiky, ktere ti poradi, jak ho hrat, kdy ho hrat a v jakem prostredi ho hrat. Ale hlavne. Dostanes popis monstra, dostanes nejake informace o tom, kde monstrum zije, jak zije atd. A tyhle textiky jsou na celem Monster Manualu nejlepsi. Jak rika Wlker, bez tabulek se zit da, kdyz mas nejakou tabulku, ktera je obsahuje vsechny nebo nejakou radu, jak postavit nove monstrum.
Ale nic ti nedokaze nahradit ty stripky inspiraci, ktere autori MM pisi pod kazde jednotlive monstrum. Jednoduche vypisky z MM1 pro DnD 4ed:
Slaad:
AS CREATURES OF PURE ENTROPY, slaads exist to create disor-
der. Their hold on reality is tenuous at best. Their thoughts are
clouded with maddening images, they seem aware of things
beyond other creatures’ perceptions, and they attack without
provocation.
Slaads propogate by planting embryos in their victims. As
each embryo grows, the host creature succumbs to madness.
Left untreated, the embryo transforms into a slaad tadpole
that burrows out of its host’s skull, killing the host in the pro-
cess. For this reason, most other intelligent creatures loathe
and fear slaads.
A slaad tadpole matures into a full-sized adult slaad (of a
random type) in 1d4 + 3 days. Until then, it feeds on whatever
small prey it finds.
Goblinske druhy:
The following information about goblins can be obtained with
a successful Nature check.
DC 15: Goblins’ bellicose nature can be traced, in part, to
their reverence for the god Bane, whom they see as the mighti-
est hobgoblin warchief in the cosmos. Some of Bane’s exarchs
are goblins. Maglubiyet, the Battle Lord, and Hruggek, the
Master of Ambush, are most prominent among these.
DC 20: Hobgoblins once had an empire in which bugbears
and goblins were their servants. This empire fell to internal
strife and interference from otherworldly forces—perhaps the
fey, whom many goblins hate.
DC 25: Hobgoblins developed mundane and magical
methods for taming and breeding beasts as guards, laborers,
and soldiers. They have a knack for working with wolves and
worgs, and some drake breeds owe their existence directly
to hobgoblin meddling. All goblins carry on this tradition of
domesticating beasts.
DC 30: Given their brutal magical traditions, hobgoblins
might have created their cousins in ancient times: Bugbears
served as elite warriors, and goblins worked as scouts and
infiltrators. The disintegration of hobgoblin power led to wide-
spread and diverse sorts of goblin tribes.
To samozrejme neni vsechno, tohle jsou jenom stripky. Ale presne tyhle stripky proste patri k budovani meho vlastniho sveta. Neco mi uvazne za prsty, ja to vyuziji. A pak kdyz jdou hraci za obry, aby si z nich udelali spojence pro nadchazejici bitvu, muzu jim neco nabidnout hnedka z voleje, i kdyz jsem to napriklad dopredu nemohl cekat. Muzu rychle otevrit MM a precist par utrzku informaci, ktere si jejich postavy pamatuji, co kde kdo cetl, co slysel od sveho dedecka a tak.
Ja vim, ze ty mi reknes, ze TY si vystacis se trema fantasy rasami a tak. Ale vsichni jsou TY. Ja mam treba rad takove mnozstvi ras, jake jen jde, velky svet plny tajemstvi, cizich a nepochopitelnych kultur, objevovani neznameho a tak. Napriklad u me se hrdinove potloukaji po oblasti, kterou kdysi obyvalo obrovske mnozstvi trpasliku. Cele 3 levely na heroickem tieru jsme stravili v podzemi, kdy chodili z jedne kolonie prezivsich trpasliku nebo jejich puvodne podrizene rasy ke druhe a kazda mela trochu jine zvyky, trochu jine slozeni ras, ktera tam zila a tak.
A ja vzdy mohl sahnout do MM a mohl jsem vytahnout nahodna setkani se zajimavymi monstry, ze kterych se mohli stat nepratele pro nejakou kolonii a tak. Proste muzu hrace jednoduse prekvapit, drzet je v napeti, protoze nevedeli, co na vyskoci zpoza rohu. A hlavne to bylo "barvenejsi" a zajimavejsi. Minimalne pro me.