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For me the 2024 MM does a much better job of communicating the lore of the monsters with their art entries than the 2014 MM.

I am trying to understand how money could play into the decision? Can you expand on your thought here? Also, there are other options...

Fortunately there is still quite a bit of lore for most monsters in the 2024 MM. While some monsters have less, a lot have the same...

Or we're heading towards a game that trusts DMs to take care of their own world building, or purchase one of many setting books from...

They’ve stripped it out of the MM to keep that book setting neutral. Setting specific lore will be in the individual setting books...

I like that the new lore is more setting agnostic. Makes it more useful for me. YVMV.

I would agree that the lore that is present is better targeted, and more suited for reflufflng by a DM for their own world.

Many people have noted that the descriptions in the 2024 MM are shorter than the 2014 MM. The general feeling seems to be that less lore...

There are two scenarios where spoken languages matter one jot to me: 1) Where a specific PC gets to have some backstory cultural...

My point is that D&D never treated languages design as serious game design so using it as a barrier is foolish play born out of...

Every prime material plane has its own rules. This one might only have mythical ones.

Many of these replies seem to regard celestial bodies in their proper, astrophysical sense rather than in their mythic sense (which...

Yeah, seems clear to me that magical darkness is intended to block darkvision but it got lost in the editing/drafting somewhere.

Let me try one more time to simplify my point - which is Crawford and Sage Advice got this one wrong. According to Crawford/SAC...

Well, they also could have made a slowed condition so they didn’t have to repeat its effects in every spell and monster ability that...