Attn Marketing Devs for Isle of Dread

[Aelonwy]

It might be a good idea to have Isle of Dread come with a new Monster Manual. I say this because my son finally saw the dinosaur mockups in the Producer Letter and he's very excited but he asked a good question. Will dinosaurs be a new category in the MM? Answer... IDK but we already have raptors in game, in several places in game really... so why not? Who wouldn't want to keep track of the dinosaurs they've encountered and the various models.

So please devs new MM with Dinosaurs.

[Nonesuch2008]

It might be a good idea to have Isle of Dread come with a new Monster Manual. I say this because my son finally saw the dinosaur mockups in the Producer Letter and he's very excited but he asked a good question. Will dinosaurs be a new category in the MM? Answer... IDK but we already have raptors in game, in several places in game really... so why not? Who wouldn't want to keep track of the dinosaurs they've encountered and the various models.

So please devs new MM with Dinosaurs.

Please make this happen. Thematically, it would be a great way to add value to the package.

[droid327]

so why not?

Well, probably because there isnt likely to ever be any more dinosaurs outside of IoD and the few raptors we have in Sharn. I doubt we'll go to Talenta anytime soon. They arent really part of general D&D mythos. Are there any other MM mobs that are so specific to one or two packs?

[LeoLionxxx]

Well, probably because there isnt likely to ever be any more dinosaurs outside of IoD and the few raptors we have in Sharn. I doubt we'll go to Talenta anytime soon. They arent really part of general D&D mythos. Are there any other MM mobs that are so specific to one or two packs?

Forgewraiths were added with the latest MM, but are so far isolated to Sharn.

Quori are scattered here and there, but only prominent in a few packs.

Hmm, it's been a while since we got new purple worms - those are cool.

I hope and expect that the dinosaur models will be so cool that future content finds good reasons to sprinkle them around in future content.
It's true they're not super common in D&D, but they are a little more common in Eberron.
https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Dinosaur

The 4th and 5th Edition PnP Monster manuals feature them as well.

[Aelonwy]

Forgewraiths were added with the latest MM, but are so far isolated to Sharn.

Quori are scattered here and there, but only prominent in a few packs.

Hmm, it's been a while since we got new purple worms - those are cool.

I hope and expect that the dinosaur models will be so cool that future content finds good reasons to sprinkle them around in future content.
It's true they're not super common in D&D, but they are a little more common in Eberron.
https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Dinosaur

The 4th and 5th Edition PnP Monster manuals feature them as well.

True.

Also Draegloths exclusively MotU, Mines of Tethyamar and Search and Rescue
Glabrezu pretty limited as well to MotU, end boss of Demons Assault, epic Catacombs, High Road, and epic orchard slayer
Yugoloth to MotU and Sealed in Amber
Warforged Titan to Cannith quests and raids, the Titan Awakes and Subversion
Horned Devil Shavarath, Cannith Challenges, Devil Assault, DoJ, Creeping Death

Raptors already currently in Sharn, KotB, Eye Know Whodunnit, Danger at Dunwater, Dread Sea Scrolls

I think they're already in enough content to make a worthy category having more types in Isle of Dread just seems like a good time for it both to drum up excitement and to add value to the expansion bundle(s).

[jskinner937]

Was there not a mention of a new monster manual in the producer’s letter? I thought there was.

[Aelonwy]

Was there not a mention of a new monster manual in the producer’s letter? I thought there was.

I'm going by this published Producer's Letter https://www.ddo.com/en/news/producers-letter-february-2022 and brains being the inexact mass of meat and chemicals that they are means I could be missing it... but I just don't see a reference to it.

Or perhaps you heard it somewhere else and misremember the mention as being the producer letter? There was an interview with Tolero not too long ago. I only watched it once and because of Ads missed several minutes of conversation several times.

[Oxarhamar]

Well, probably because there isnt likely to ever be any more dinosaurs outside of IoD and the few raptors we have in Sharn. I doubt we'll go to Talenta anytime soon. They arent really part of general D&D mythos. Are there any other MM mobs that are so specific to one or two packs?

This isnt reason why not yes there are other specific MM that are limieted sounds like a reason to add more dinos

Dinosaurs are in fact D&D mythos more importantly in Eberron even if most carnivorous dinosaurs have been driven out dinosaurs still live on every continent

Dinosaurs have been missing from the setting in game for too long they should add them as rare spawns either red named or in waves & packs in most of the eberron explorer areas

Dino mount wpuldmake a worthy reward

[thedip]

Maybe they could add Vampires to a MM at the same time - or maybe vampiric dinosaurs?

[droid327]

Maybe they could add Vampires to a MM at the same time - or maybe vampiric dinosaurs?

With all the new animation rigs they're building for IoD, we better see some skeleton dinosaurs :D

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/561aec51e4b076f7055406b9/1486628651526-NGMOJRI1GH16O3F0YEKV/nightatmuseum

[dunklezhan]

It might be a good idea to have Isle of Dread come with a new Monster Manual. I say this because my son finally saw the dinosaur mockups in the Producer Letter and he's very excited but he asked a good question. Will dinosaurs be a new category in the MM? Answer... IDK but we already have raptors in game, in several places in game really... so why not? Who wouldn't want to keep track of the dinosaurs they've encountered and the various models.

So please devs new MM with Dinosaurs.

You raise an excellent point.



With all the new animation rigs they're building for IoD, we better see some skeleton dinosaurs :D

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/561aec51e4b076f7055406b9/1486628651526-NGMOJRI1GH16O3F0YEKV/nightatmuseum

You also raise an excellent point.

:)

[Aelonwy]

With all the new animation rigs they're building for IoD, we better see some skeleton dinosaurs :D

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/561aec51e4b076f7055406b9/1486628651526-NGMOJRI1GH16O3F0YEKV/nightatmuseum

Okay... that would be really, really cool as well. Although I'm still waiting on a skeletal horse mount. Assuming we actually do get more Ravenloft content eventually (yes please) that would be an ideal time for the Skeletal horse. I don't remember anything explicitly undead in Isle of Dread, I remember dinosaurs, the Kopru, pirates and something with the first mention of Demogorgon (to me at least) which looked stupid in the book with that eldritch body and two baboon faces. But it sure would be awesome if there were a dinosaur graveyard with a dinosaur skeleton to fight. However, I never really did IoD we just discussed running it because we had the materials but chose something else... ToEE I think, so idk if that might bother someone's nostalgia or WotC rules.