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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Epic Meepo" data-source="post: 9595567" data-attributes="member: 57073">Humanoids vs. MonstersSlowly but surely, I'm editing the 600+ pages of my Forgotten Realms travel guide. I'm gradually conducting line edits, filling in gaps in the text, and tracking down an occasional illustration to add.At the same time, I'm also digesting the content of the 2025 Monster Manual. In particular, I'm debating how to address some of the creature type changes made in that book. (Some creatures formerly classified as Humanoids are now classified as non-Humanoid monsters in that book.)The existence of Fey goblins, in particular, gives me a bit of grief. Specifically, it wrecks havoc with the population numbers I calculated for several goblinoid-majority regions of the Realms. My original intent was to count only the Humanoids in each region's population, leaving the monster population unspecified. That becomes difficult when its unclear what percentage of the goblinoid population counts as Humanoid.On the plus side, the new Monster Manual classifies oni as Fiends. Before that change, I wasn't able to identify any tiefling population native to Kara-Tur. Now that at least some oni are Fiends, half-oni (from Dragon magazine) essentially fit the Player's Handbook description of tieflings. As a result, I'm adding them to the book (possibly under the name oni-kin) as a tiefling population native to parts of Kara-Tur.Overall, the latest changes to creature types appear to be a net positive for the travel guide. Goblinoid demographics become a bit trickier to handle, but I get to include an entry describing a population of Kara-Turan tieflings that would otherwise have gone unwritten. I'll take that trade!</blockquote>

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