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<blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 6903217" data-attributes="member: 6801060"><p>I would imagine that reprinting the derro and ixitxachitl information from OotA would probably only take up 2 pages total, even with the variants included. Beyond that, I don't feel that any of the creatures from the APs "need" to be reprinted like those two do. They are classic monsters from the earliest eras of the game, and thus have something of a right to be detailed in a true "monster" book, and not consigned to eventual obscurity of an AP appendix. Mongrelfolk from CoS are the only other creature that even comes close to these two in D&D history, so I wouldn't mind them in Volo's either, and would be only a little put out if they weren't. Yakfolk from SKT would be nice, but hardly in the league of the previous creatures, and the rest, no matter how cool tressym are, would be, I agree, taking up space better used for updating more well-known and popular monsters from eras past.</p><p></p><p>(I disagree with the page-to-price ratio issue too. It's not too many fewer pages than your typical AP for the same price, and will no doubt see much more use over the edition's lifetime than the APs ever will. So what is loses in page count, it will more than make up for in utility, in my opinion at least).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Demetrios1453, post: 6903217, member: 6801060"] I would imagine that reprinting the derro and ixitxachitl information from OotA would probably only take up 2 pages total, even with the variants included. Beyond that, I don't feel that any of the creatures from the APs "need" to be reprinted like those two do. They are classic monsters from the earliest eras of the game, and thus have something of a right to be detailed in a true "monster" book, and not consigned to eventual obscurity of an AP appendix. Mongrelfolk from CoS are the only other creature that even comes close to these two in D&D history, so I wouldn't mind them in Volo's either, and would be only a little put out if they weren't. Yakfolk from SKT would be nice, but hardly in the league of the previous creatures, and the rest, no matter how cool tressym are, would be, I agree, taking up space better used for updating more well-known and popular monsters from eras past. (I disagree with the page-to-price ratio issue too. It's not too many fewer pages than your typical AP for the same price, and will no doubt see much more use over the edition's lifetime than the APs ever will. So what is loses in page count, it will more than make up for in utility, in my opinion at least). [/QUOTE]
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