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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8416910" data-attributes="member: 23751">PvP is a table concern and should be decides by the table and not the game. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />All right, all right.  I understood what you meant and I agree with it.It actually doesn't make it more clear at all.  Saying it in a stat block is just as clear as this..."The alignment specified in a monster's stat block is the default. Feel free to depart from it and change a monster's alignment to suit the needs of your campaign. If you want a good-aligned green dragon or an evil storm giant, there's nothing stopping you."That's just as clear as these changes. Reading that it's crystal clear that they can change alignments around how they want, rather than every single member of a species being exactly the same. The only real difference is that now DMs who didn't bother to read the alignment section of the MM have been catered to. Personally, I have no sympathy for DMs who didn't bother to read the alignment section and see this as an unnecessary change.I have no opinion on this right now.This I'm also happy with.Crawford has said that all of the best combat spells have been made into actions.  Unless the books are coming with errata that allows class abilities and spells such as Silence and Counterspell to work on them, he has rendered these abilities almost completely worthless. The spells you'd want them to work on are no longer spells.Same<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44d.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs up    (y)"  data-smilie="22"data-shortname="(y)" />On the other hand, unless a Bugbear was raised by Elves, it's going to speak goblinoid, because that's what that species speaks as a whole. Individual exceptions can be handled by the DM.  They should have default languages, but perhaps with language like is now in alignment indicating the DM can depart from it, not that a DM should need it.</blockquote>

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