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My guts feeling tell me that the reanimator is a failed attempt for necromancer in inside test but good enough for aritficer after some repackage.

My gaming rig can run smoothly with newly released games but it stuggled with Project Sigil. It has some serious optimization problem that kill my urge to use it after tried for 10 min.

It is not free bonus spells known, it only add to the list so caster still have to use their prepare/known to grab it. And able to cast them from scroll.

Because his name is written right below the art? At least it is in Beyond's page

It, in fact, is all you are complaining about. Longsword hit harder in one NPC's hand than in PC's or other monster? Have extra rider? It is all about meet the expected DPR for CR. WotC just stop write the fluff text to "justify" why they hit harder, for saving page space I guess.

WotC have a weird commitment about not change CR for old monster. So instead reduce most NPC's CR they boost their states to meet their monster peer. In one case like archmage wotc nerf it by made them cast Lv.9 version Cone of Cold instead of proper Lv.9 spells, due to slamming spells like...

They are vulnerable to "Running water". Things like a swiming pool or a large enough barrel filled with water aren't "running water". Amusingly a Water Elemental dash through their space technically IS "running water".

I think this argument is hopeless, it is like they will argue skeleton can be suffocated by water because 2024 stop writing Undead Nature in the description. (And this already has happened in Reddlt) Edit : skeleton is bad example cause they already immune Exhaustion, vampire is more appropriate

Well, the default 2014 general NPC stat block all hit like wet noodle no matter their CR. And that still true for some in MMoM. The new approach is "It's a CR xx creature first and need to have appropriate general DPR and HP"

I find it amusing that although WotC have discard the verisimilitude approach since 17 year ago already (when 4e came out), some people here still treat it like just happened yesterday and insist the verisimilitude approach is the one true way.

Kind of? Devils and demons except erinyes in new MM don't really have observable gender feature anymore.

They have almost double the DPR to make up. To be honest the old were-creature have terrible stat that most power budget got eat up by that immunity. If the cursed target drops to 0 Hit Points, it instead becomes a were-creature under the DM’s control and has 10 Hit Points. No more "playable"...

Board game and TCGs, the three most successfully card games (MtG, YGO, Pokémon) all make tons of money. Kinda coincidentally the companies behind those three games are all awful in their own way.