machineelf
Explorer
Looking through my MM, on the lizardfolk page and a few others it looks almost like a printing error. There is red and black text slightly overlapping that gives a fuzzy effect, like my glasses were off or something. Hard to read. Most pages look normal though. Anyone else with a MM notice that?
Well congratulations, you probably got a very early copy off the press run. When publications like these are printed, sometimes the color plates are not lined up exactly (so it looks like you have here a magenta plate that is not in perfect sync with the cyan, yellow, and key (black) plates. (CMYK.)) As the press gets started and pages are printed, the press workers will adjust the plates to make the match perfectly for the later pages and that come through.
So it sucks that it's not perfectly matched up, but it also means that you got one of the first copies that came off the press most likely. So there's that.