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The best thing about the 2025 Monster Manual from a gameplay standpoint is that some of the new and revised monsters are legitimately cool. The Archhag, the Blob of Annihlation, the Haunting Revenant. I'm hit or miss on some of the redesigns. The Arcanaloth's entire damage budget is in a basic...

Ten years!? Damn. Congrats.

Oh, that's good at least. But, haha, I was always getting the PDF regardless. No way I can afford to drop $60 to $100 on a POD.

Well, thanks regardless. I'm sorry that clashing egos have resulted in so much frustration for everyone involved but I suppose that's the danger of big collaborations like this.

Question, If I purchase the currently-available version, are the older versions available for download?

I've not used home field advantage but Monster Manual Expanded series is just more monsters, it's not a replacement for the Monster Manual.

I think there's two different factors here. On the one hand, yes, Chris Cocks wants to integrate GenAI into D&D somehow so that he can either charge people for a service or pay fewer people to make stuff, perhaps both. On the other hand, he is clearly spewing nonsense about how he runs his...

Chris Cocks sure is living up to his surname, huh?

To be fair it seems that what a pit fiend looks like has been radically different every edition. Honestly I'm pretty partial to the one in the Tales of the Valiant Monster Vault though I don't have a link for it handy.

Oddly the pit fiend in the book doesn't use that style.

Really like the Balor and the Goblinoids.

The image of the Tarrasque in the Monster Manual (2025) would indicate that it would be impossible to even attack the Tarrasque with a melee weapon unless you were basically in one of the squares it occupies. The reason it's reach isn't longer is that it would basically have to double over like...

That's one of the reasons I hate the Planescapey urge to make the Outer Planes infinite. How do you map infinity? Especially when they can canonically consume parts of other planes that match their alignment too strongly; just say they get bigger over time as needed.

You mean simurgh? Edit: Never mind apparently senmurv is an alternate name for it. I thought it was a typo. :ROFLMAO:

I think you can play it with a lot more freedom, but it's not written in a way that truly facilitates that. It helps that I've seen some really good actual plays of it, including one DMed ENWorlder @Burnside The behind-the-scenes issues were definitely part of it. Like it originally had nothing...

The association isn't the only thing stripped in this image.

Why do you think siege monsters deal extra damage to structures and objects? Elephants and polar bears are animate creatures. They don't stand still and let the tarrasque eat them. Even then a Critical Hit will drop them in one.

To be fair I would like official versions if for no other reason than getting some half decent art of them.

All ten Archdukes and many other denizens of hell get stats in the Chains of Asmodeus adventure on DM's Guild.

I really don't think the Custom lineage would work for a Shardmind.