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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lackhand" data-source="post: 3796154" data-attributes="member: 36160">Get enough of the "dragon magazine article-worthy" ideas together, and it's worth a new Monster Manual, at least.And along the way, you come up with rules for how to handle a variety of facets of the monsters -- common Improved-Grab-like, Grapple modifying mechanics inform the grapple rules; you really want X to still be threat at Y level, so you make damage from Z environmental effect scale better; new bits of treasure.Maybe the rules were already there, but badly presented.You justify a new DMG pretty easily, that way, too.The PHB comes from noticing what went wrong while playtesting the monsters.Bass ackwards, but still.</blockquote>