Sneak Preview: D&D 4e Monster Building and Customization

One of the highly touted aspects of the new edition of D&D is the ease with which DMs will be able to create and customize monsters to challenge their players. In fact, I just learned the DMs will be able build monsters on the fly, using just a few rolls of a trusty twenty-sider:

1	black	blade	brute
2	blood	blood	creeper
3	bone	bond/bound	delver
4	death	claw	fiend
5	demon	cloak/cloaked	filcher
6	doom	doom	foamer
7	dread	fang	gnasher
8	flame	fiend	horde/hordling
9	ghost	fire	howler
10	grim	gaunt	hulk
11	ice	haunt	lasher
12	iron	horn	leaper
13	night	maw	racer
14	poison	rake	reaver
15	razor	scale	ripper
16	spell	spike	scourge
17	stone	tusk	sneak
18	storm	warp/warped	swarm
19	thunder	wing	titan
20	wind	wrack	wurm

With attacks and abilities built right into the name, spelled out in ubiquitous damned adjectival compound nouns, a DM need only decide the creature's level range and role, and let 'er rip.

EDIT [in response to James Mishler]: The beauty of 4e is scalabilty, to wit

acid

crawl

bloodbeast