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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 8256075" data-attributes="member: 11760">Whew, good thing I didn't make that claim.The 5E Monster Manual actually has a fair amount of monsters from other sources as well. I was a late convert to 5E, having gone to Castles & Crusades instead of 4E, and was surprised by the diversity of sources in the 5E MM.I don't recall a whole lot of Native American or African monsters in previous editions of D&D, waiting to be updated to 5E.I would rather WotC holds off on messing with their Oriental Adventures back catalog until they can get the appropriate folks to work on that material. Given the baby steps they've made with the Vistani, I'm not sure they're ready to dive into the deep end of the pool yet.Yep. I had most of those. Most of those monsters are forgettable or were space fillers. Stuff like the Greyhawk Dragon or other dragons to fill out the color wheel were filling imaginary niches, not created to fill a real need. Now, there were a lot of neat monsters in late 3E and later in 4E, but I don't know that many of the missing ones were what anyone would think of as iconic.And I think the best way to bring in missing 4E material, including a Marshal base class, would be in an Nentir Vale setting book, not in a Monster Manual 2.With third party publishers, many of them run by former TSR and WotC folks, there's probably more quality monster books out now than ever in the history of the game. (3E had more third party material overall, but a lot of it was Atari glut level stuff.)I have Cawood Publishing's Monsters of the City book right beside me as I type, and they're up to four monster books now. There's also Kobold Press, Monte Cook Games, the resurgent Scarred Lands books and much, much more. Sandy Petersen seems to put out a new monster book on Kickstarter every other week.Most of those books are broad and expansive books, although they typically have hooks for their company settings.You may get your wish. In the last earnings call, Hasbro said there's going to be increased D&D output from here on out. They may get to the point where straight monster books make sense for them.</blockquote>

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