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But that's all just your speculation. I could, just as logically, speculate just the opposite - that we've seen art of monsters that vary wildly from their MM illustration in past products, thus the MM version isn't necessarily the final word on the matter. Just to give an example using another...

There's no indication that it actually is a replacement and not a variation, either. There's no indication either way. While it might be claimed that as since it's the art in the MM, that indicates it's a replacement, we've seen art of other creatures that vary quite differently from their MM...

The three MME books are the only hard copies I've purchased out of anything I've gotten from the DM's Guild. So full of awesome monsters, and the art he commissioned for the revised versions is just incredible. The physical versions are definitely worth it.

Someone upthread a bit facetiously referred to male hags basically being Gargamel, which, on further reflection, is actually a pretty reasonable proto-example. I mean, he lives in his semi-ruined castle in the forest with his cat familiar and terrorizes the local fey, right? It's not a far leap...

And in fact, it would be pretty insulting to Hindu religious beliefs if they were...

Yes. Always in the lower inner margin. That's been the standard for all D&D books for quite awhile now, and I just double checked and it's the same for the 2024 PHB and DMG

A male medusa (a true medusa, not a maedar) first appeared in Princes of the Apocalypse, which came out 10 years ago. As one of the main antagonists, moreover.

Which brings it closer to one of its origins in the Brazen Bull of Greek legend. So much so that the Brazen Bull is now a gorgon variant.

Half a page to a page, not a huge difference. The one thing that will tell us most is the page count when we get it - a big page count will indicate a larger gazetteer, lower will mean smaller. Since we've only had the revised rule books with their standardized page count recently, we haven't...

If you're going to appeal to the original mythology/folklore, I assume you will, in turn, be tiilting at the windmill that gorgons shouldn't be bulls, and so on? Because D&D has put folklore and mythology through a meat grinder and what has come out often has been quite different from the actual...

I mean, even the Gray Box had decent, if sometimes short, overviews of the main locations of the setting. While I doubt we'll see everything described in deep detail, I would think we'll still see at least 1 page overviews like the 4e FR book. Which would still be a definite upgrade over the...

It's also on the lower right margin of the marilith page in the printed version.

Exactly this. Heck, the 1e/2e dragon designs remain as valid as the 3e and 5e versions. Invidiuals look different from each other, sometimes startlingly so. And that's even before magic gets involved....

The marilith (named Kallistes) is behind the drow attacks in the game. She's more or less a Lolth substitute, really - associated with drow and spiders, and has her own drow and spider infested layer of the Abyss...

You know, how about actually discussing how the monsters were improved or made worse mechanically in this thread, and not getting into side discussions over wording or order. It will make for a much more interesting and... calm... thread.

Thinking on this a bit more, one thing they could do is periodically put in 17+ adventures in the anthologies. That way, the tier will get some coverage and material, without worrying about making it the cap of a full adventure path.

As I said in the threads on the new dragon looks, there's no reason that both new and old can't exist side by side. No species has every single member look exactly the same, or even necessarily similar (after all, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, and kale are all the same species - yet they all...

There are no high level giants to use. As I mentioned in a previous post, the giants in the MM top out at CR 13. You'll find lots of undead and aberrations at 15+ CRs, though.