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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 1979481" data-attributes="member: 1465">I have DM-ed for a few years by using only the MM I plus some creatures from MotP and adventures. I haven't bought other monster books, but if I needed more monsters I would definitely prefer not to have to write them up myself (it's a fun part of the game, but for the DM only, and it takes time). Anyway, I still have to use many from the first MM, and with all the templates, HD advancement and class levels, I don't currently feel the need for new books.One important thing for me is to re-use existing monsters by just changing the appearance, and it looks like you've done just the same! I think a DM can take even a popular creature with distinctive abilities, such as the Mummy for example, change how it looks like and how those abilities look like (such as changing mummy rot to a of spiritual drain, and drop undead type while keeping the same immunities - but say they are unique abilities of the monster) and very few if none of the players will notice it works just like a mummy...OTOH, I'd like to have a wider arrange of creatures. My problem with monsters books has been that every time I see a new one, I find it full of oddities which I don't like, and only a few of the monsters seem attractive for my tastes  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> Both. Sometimes the story screams "harpies!" and other times I want to try a monster and then I find a story coming from reading its abilities (or even just the picture).</blockquote>

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