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True. More oozes and the quickling would've been cool. There are other monsters I would've dropped for them. The nothic (as you mentioned) definitely comes to mind.

Yep. Agree with this.

No way. The only thing better than the quaggoth...two quaggoths.

Be interesting to see if this is errata (like the CR 23 monsters' XP values likely will be) or if it's by design.

Gasher?

Only if the DM says they do. If the DM says "nope", then they don't. Problem solved.

As DM, the monsters/NPCs heal as much as I decide they heal. They don't play by the same rules the PCs do (like they did in 3.x).

I think he's referring to the original 2e Monstrous Compendiums. They released as a three-ring binder. Subsequent "monster books" were loose inserts to be added.

They will do splatbooks. Maybe not as many as 3.x had, but they will.

Now there's a name I've not heard in a long time....a long time.

I'd increase both of these. The mummy, CR 3, has 58 hit points. An average CR 5 monster (I dumped ALL of the MM, and every other monster/NPC we've seen into a spreadsheet) has 94 hp. Average damage for a CR 5 monster is 27 per round (though probably less when it has rider effects on its...

I like it, and it's a good book. But best MM ever? Nope.

I'd change this. Very few things in 5e deal ability damage/drain anymore. I think only the Shadow does now. (I don't remember anything else in the MM doing it.) Change this so it reduces maximum hp each day, like the mummy's curse or whatever, and maybe give disadvantage on Wisdom checks/saves...

Yep. The ensuing quest to raise a dead character (or NPC) has led to many memorable things in our games. (There is no run back to town and pay the cleric to raise the deceased; and PCs don't have access to revivification magic...doesn't exist as such).

Disagree. The DM's job is to set the tone, setting, narrate the story, describe the world, whatever, and challenge the characters. It's the player's job to keep their character alive. (Though granted in the above situation there wasn't really a chance in Hell of that happening it doesn't sound...

My parents (specifically my dad) bought me the original red box set back in like 81 or 82 for my b-day. Now, in the early to mid 80s my best friend's mom saw Mazes and Monsters and got spooked. Burned (as in took his stuff outside and made a nice big fire) all his gaming stuff. Course, it didn't...

Wasn't the war devil originally the Malebranche? If so, it too is in the MM.

Sea hag is in the MM

Same as in 1e IIRC. Standard djinn couldn't grant wishes, but noble ones could three times to its master before being freed from service.

No such thing. A DM never forgets.