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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hexmage-EN" data-source="post: 9589743" data-attributes="member: 79428">A few more lore comparisons, including Black Dragons again because I somehow overlooked their lore entries for each age category:Black Dragons- MM2014 states that black dragons are the most evil and sadistic chromatics that collect the treasures of fallen civilizations. Their presence creates shambling mounds, and they use lizardfolk and kobold underlings while trying to undermine other dragons. They toy with their prey, creating false means of escape. MM2025 reduces a good bit of this general lore, paring it down to black dragons wishing to destroy things and rule over the ruins while hoarding tarnished symbols of hope. In exchange, each age category now gets some lore. Young Black Dragons now ally with powerful undead or aberrations, Adult Black Dragons amass cultists and undead, and ancients use undead and fiends to try and kill every other living thing other than themselves.Black Pudding- Neither the 2014 and 2025 Monster Manuals have a lot of lore on these oozes, but the newer book has a table of possible supernatural origins for black puddings that includes ancient black dragon saliva, the embodiment of a foul deity's emotions, and cosmic entropy.Blights- Most of the 2014 Monster Manual group entries were broken up in 2025, but not the blights for whatever reason. The general lore section is shorter, omitting the backstory for the Gulthias Tree from The Sunless Citadel and moving an abridged version to the Gulthias Blight entry. Twig Blights lose the detail that they can root in soil, Needle Blights lose the detail that they alert others with pollen, and Vine Blights lose the detail that they are connected to a Gulthias Tree. Tree Blights are added and are said to attack awakened trees and treants.Blink Dog- The 2025 version loses the detail that they attack displacer beasts on sight in favor of saying they accompany Feywild folk on hunts.</blockquote>

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