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A book along the lines of 3e's Unearthed Arcana, with lots of variant rules options and ways to customize the game for different playstyles.

I don't much care for checking morale on a d20 (though I do it for simplicity); I always liked the Basic version of having a morale score and rolling 2d6, since there was a real but not too extreme bell curve that made more cowardly creatures far less likely to make their check and braver...

Finished mission, left on ship.

The lack of a real monster playtest has been a real issue for several editions now.

I'm gonna say orcs too, but I'll add- also dwarves (and duergar), elves (and Drow), gnomes, halflings, humans. All of them are 'monsters' in the classic DnD sense of the word. Include them all instead of arbitrarily leaving out those intended as pc races. There can be unique stat blocks for each...

I keep hearing good stuff about Mr Black but haven't had the chance to try it yet.

It damn well is in my 5e cosmology!

Since nobody has really given you the lore on them, I will do my best. Note that I am not an expert on Planescape, which is where I feel the most and best lore regarding them comes from. I am sure that what I am posting will be incomplete and will likely have some errors in it. Yugoloths are...

Elves had clerics; they were just npcs.

I offered a different construction exactly to point out that it is possible for them both to be right while arriving at different conclusions.

This is one of the things that really bugs me. Pcs now have no way of knowing if things like charm person, PfGaE, etc will be effective against a given lizardfolk or goblin- and there's no way to really learn, since the answer by RAW is "sometimes it will and sometimes it won't". This is, in...

The first Creature Catalogue or whatever it was called came out before the 3.0 PH. EDIT: At least, I am pretty sure it did.

If Alice says that light is a wave, and Beth says that light is a particle, both are correct. Neither is completely correct. That's the kind of thing we're talking about when we discuss the planes- multiple perspectives can be correct, because no mortal fully understands the issues being...

Implosion is a 3e spell, but I may not have converted it yet. It exists in my campaign based on having been used in the past, so it's eventually going to be converted. I often reference items, monsters, and spells that I haven't converted yet; all previous edition material is valid in my game if...

Unfortunately the fumble charts are hand written, so there's no digital version. The crit charts, on the other hand...

I don't recall it from the 1e DMG, although maybe it was in the big monster index in the back. The first place I saw it was in Polyhedron Magazine, the official magazine of the RPGA, during the 1e era. 2e made it a thing in the PH.

There were. They were in the 3.5 Monster Manual. The original monster creation rules for 3.0 were first released in an issue of Dragon Magazine.

Reskinning is a far cry from making your own monsters.

How about: 4. All models of the cosmology are merely different ways of looking at it through the limited understanding of mortals, and no one can be sure what is actually going on because it requires senses and understanding well beyond what mortals are capable of?

Not unique- generic to all Humanoids. Grumpy old man is not enamored of this change.