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So what is a harpy exactly? It's certainly not an ooze. It's not a celestial, dragon, or construct. It could be a fiend or a fey theoretically though that's never been part of their lore. It's too intelligent to a beast, too Medium to be a giant. I suppose it could be an elemental but unlike...

Who said the players can't loot it?

Monstrosities are classical monsters (IE the Kraken, griffon, hydra) and stuff altered by magic (owlbears, werewovles, mimics)

I'm guessing not considering they still have non-legacy stat blocs from MPMM.

That could be neat. I don't think there's been an actual elemental realms source book since 4E's The Plane Below from over 15 years ago.

That's what I was thinking when I saw the conversion chart honsestly. I didn't know how much HP the Tough had (still don't know the exact number) but I used the 5e Thug a lot so I know it has 32 average HP compared to the average 15 the standard Orc had. More than doubling the base HP of Orc...

Strong changes to the stats, I like that. Also support for them being more than just eagles.

I mean obviously the stuff about human mothers usually not surviving the birth of an Ogrillon are gross and shouldn't be there. But I just find it fascinating that people have been saying 'we want more nuance and options for having mixed heritage player characters' and WOTC's response is to...

Aren't half-dragons still in the game?

Are Ogres no longer allowed to have kids with humanoids? Why change their origins?

Derro weren't in the 2014 Monster Manual either.

Honestly that makes so much sense... 2014 Beholders don't have any Bonus Actions, so why did they not make it one then?:unsure:

Are Drow and Duergar mentioned at all outside the conversion table?

I think that if they care, they should change it back. I don't think it's a destructive change to the game or something that merits hundreds of posts arguing about it.

I do, in fact, understand why people care. Creature types are one of the few categorical elements of 5E that do the heavy lifting Keywords do in 4E and Pathfinder 2E. But I don't think it's going to be that big of a deal in practice. There are already plenty of human-shaped monsters that immune...

Fortunately, the mechanical aspects of everything eventually ends up on A5E Tools so not owning the books isn't a barrier to their entry. It's definitely more crunchy and complicated than 2014 5E, but the power level is comparable. Regular 5E Adventures should work just fine.

Elementals. That's... not where I was expecting them to take Lizardfolk.

It really isn't.

I thought this was a store shelf at first... why do you have 5 or six copies of each book

I mean Monsters of the Multiverse isn't legacy content. That's where all the good Duergar statblocks are anyway.