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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9427186" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Honestly, I think the people who keep complaining about how there are "almost no changes" don't think very much about how little changes can make a big difference. The change in the Green Dragon statblock from "Bite/Claw/Claw and legendary tails" to "Rendx6" and increased their damage from 124 to 162. Technically a small change, but increased the average damage by 40. Kua-Toa got small changes, but again, one of them is increasing their damage from 4 to 5, which sounds bad, but as a CR 1/4 monster, you might expect to see four of them against a level 1 party. And an extra 4 damage (1x4) on a fighter with only 13 HP is BAD for that fighter. It literally takes them from "Three hits and I'm still up" to "three hits and I'm down".The net went from a +3 vs AC (which was usually a 16 on the front line) to a Dex save... and if you have a 10 dex, then that is potentially a big problem for you. And it remains a threat even at much higher CRs.Slippery went from advantage on escaping a grapple to an auto-success on escaping a grapple as a Reaction. These are not major changes, sure, but these sort of minor changes add up. And looking at the design, I feel good that more monster abilities are going to be listed, especially at higher CRs and that is WITHOUT the new high CR monsters.</blockquote>