As per thread title.
Would really like to see the monster-building rules. Along with playing Doomsday Dawn, I was planning on converting the Rise of the Runelords game I'm running for my daughter. The level up and level down rules are useful but would be great to try out the full monster building mechanics.
I would be very surprised if they did. Unless they need to test the monster building rules specifically they probably don't want to add more variables that could throw off the results of things they want to test.
I think this could have been a great idea to have feedback of people who create their own adventures to see if the rules for creating monsters are good and balanced.
I stopped playing pathfinder since i couldn't get the monster building rules. I'm not the kind of DM who just throw around stats and magically get a well done monster and balanced for the encounter i plan.
And i was waiting 2E with impatience to see how it works as Starfinder did a really good job with it and i'm really disapointed they didn't put it in playtest...
Unchained has monster building rules in there.
I would be very surprised if they did. Unless they need to test the monster building rules specifically they probably don't want to add more variables that could throw off the results of things they want to test.
Yep. Can understand why it wouldn't be a priority for the playtest as it would be difficult to get useful feedback on homebrewed content. Would have been useful though.The rules in Unchained and Starfinder are really good and wanted to see / try out the new incarnation.
Jason Bulmahn, Director of Game Design, has a post where he mentions such a long sought-after magical device...
this forum post
I'd make sure to reply to his post, and request that they release those rules. I did.