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<blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 9207793" data-attributes="member: 6801060"><p>So, as for the new MM, they state they will have "over 500" monsters in the book - I'm assuming that's stat blocks. The 2014 MM has, according to my quick count, 445 stat blocks. So the questions are, how much is "over 500" going to be (I'd assume its going to be at most, no more than the upper 530s, or they would say "nearly 550" at that point), and what sort of monsters are we going to see? Are they going to pilfer from other monster books? Or maybe from adventures (the ixitxachitl appears in OotA, but hasn't graduated to an actual monster book, for example)? How many are going to be high CR, and how many are going to be lower-level variants? They did say we'll be seeing more NPCs - are these all generic NPCs or will there be named high-level NPCs that can be used generically if you want? What about the remaining named high-level monsters like the Archdevils and the remaining Demon Princes - will they get in?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Demetrios1453, post: 9207793, member: 6801060"] So, as for the new MM, they state they will have "over 500" monsters in the book - I'm assuming that's stat blocks. The 2014 MM has, according to my quick count, 445 stat blocks. So the questions are, how much is "over 500" going to be (I'd assume its going to be at most, no more than the upper 530s, or they would say "nearly 550" at that point), and what sort of monsters are we going to see? Are they going to pilfer from other monster books? Or maybe from adventures (the ixitxachitl appears in OotA, but hasn't graduated to an actual monster book, for example)? How many are going to be high CR, and how many are going to be lower-level variants? They did say we'll be seeing more NPCs - are these all generic NPCs or will there be named high-level NPCs that can be used generically if you want? What about the remaining named high-level monsters like the Archdevils and the remaining Demon Princes - will they get in? [/QUOTE]
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