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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9107684" data-attributes="member: 18">I think very few people have seen the Flee Mortals! or Level Up monster books, sadly. I nearly got Flee Mortals! recently but it was £33 (£ not $!) and also it sounded very, very, very goblinoid-centric, and I just have no use for/interest in goblinoids (I know, I know I'm the weird one but they're so yawn).I'd say the MotM changes represented more than a spit-and-polish, though, but rather a fundamental change of direction in monster design for the better. Is it as good as the best? No.But here's the thing - a lot of the monsters in the MM are very bread-and-butter monsters or D&amp;D-specific monsters like Beholders, and other sources aren't necessarily able to or interested in covering them particularly (I presume Level Up did cover the bread-and-butter ones - I could and should pick that MM up at some point).So to have those monsters roundly improved, by at least the amount that MotM did, and hopefully more, would be a very good thing. Would it be as good as someone like Matt Colville redesigning them? No. But that's not on the table.I will await for news of whether that actually happened though. It's possible WotC might revert to bad design re: monsters - unlikely, but possible.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9107684, member: 18"] I think very few people have seen the Flee Mortals! or Level Up monster books, sadly. I nearly got Flee Mortals! recently but it was £33 (£ not $!) and also it sounded very, very, very goblinoid-centric, and I just have no use for/interest in goblinoids (I know, I know I'm the weird one but they're so yawn). I'd say the MotM changes represented more than a spit-and-polish, though, but rather a fundamental change of direction in monster design for the better. Is it as good as the best? No. But here's the thing - a lot of the monsters in the MM are very bread-and-butter monsters or D&D-specific monsters like Beholders, and other sources aren't necessarily able to or interested in covering them particularly (I presume Level Up did cover the bread-and-butter ones - I could and should pick that MM up at some point). So to have those monsters roundly improved, by at least the amount that MotM did, and hopefully more, would be a very good thing. Would it be as good as someone like Matt Colville redesigning them? No. But that's not on the table. I will await for news of whether that actually happened though. It's possible WotC might revert to bad design re: monsters - unlikely, but possible. [/QUOTE]

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