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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SilverfireSage" data-source="post: 6397399" data-attributes="member: 6778313">Huh, not entirely sure what you're referring to here. Are you talking about when they have a table and highlight every other entry with blue? Or when they have a variant with a light colored background? I don't have the greatest eyesight by any means, but I haven't heard of anyone having much trouble reading the book.I agree that this probably should have been included. It would have added only one or two additional pages if they spaced it right, and would have made a lot of people happier. However, I would argue that with bounded accuracy, getting the CR exactly right is far less of an issue, and making encounters should be based on the environment and what just seems fun to fight in general. I'm throwing four Mummy's at my level 10 party, and it's supposedly a hard encounter. But I can also see where they're going with putting it in the DM's guide, for exactly the reason you're complaining: if you are out and about and want to make an adventure, bring the DM's guide exclusively, and the Monster Manual wont matter until you're actually running the monsters.Yeah I agree with this somewhat as well, especially in the case of things like winter wolves and wargs. These are monsters through and through, yet they're lumped in the "miscellaneous" category with the animals. The table of contents is supposed to be more of a summary than the index, but they do seem to have weird overlap that makes one superfluous.  As others have said, this isn't a WotC problem, but a shipment problem. No way around it unfortunately.I hadn't noticed until you pointed it out, but it does seem a little bit weird. I think what they were trying to do is make a pseudo background for those creatures that lack one. As you say, not a big issue, and a minor stylistic point.So yeah, a few of these are pretty odd, but the biggest one to me is that they should have replaced the index of stat blocks with a list of monsters by type, specifically for when player characters try to summon something. It took me far too long to figure out that when a player wants to conjure an elemental they aren't limited to only elementals and can use anything of that type like mephits. Having to search through essentially the entire book to figure out which ones were which is something that could have been easily mitigated by a different type of index. Overall though? Probably my favorite monster manual of all time, minor issues aside. No book will be perfect, and I'm gladdened by the amount of work Wizards decided to put into this.</blockquote>

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