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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 8744196" data-attributes="member: 6801060">Hmm, I'm of a much higher opinion of Fizban's, maybe B+/A- range, even loving the 3e Draconomicon like yourself. But, then again, that book was way bloated, as there were 120 3e (in other words, very long) statblocks, one for every age category of chromatic and metallic dragon (the book skipped out on the gem dragons, which another knock against it in my book, while Fizban's went up in my estimation by including them), which took up a significant amount of the page count; one person would likely never use 85% of them. As much as I originally disliked the drop in dragon age category granularity from 3e to 5e, over time I've come to accept that 12 categories were just too much, and 5e's 4 categories are a better base (which the Monster Manual Expanded series builds on if I want more intermediate ones) for the game in general. In any case, the 3e Draconomicon isn't an A+ for me, now that I look back upon it from a different edition viewpoint and seeing sections of it as examples of typical 3e bloat.As for Bigby's heck yeah, I'm stoked for it! Giants are one of my favorites, and the minimal coverage they got in Volo's irked me to no end. In fact, due to the lack of giant variants in Volo's and SKT, I created literally dozens of 5e giant variants posted to this very site. I'm very excited to see new official variants in this book, as well as the expanded giant lore. There hasn't been a dedicated giants book since 2e's Giantcraft, so this is long overdue...</blockquote>

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