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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Garnfellow" data-source="post: 3503254" data-attributes="member: 1223">The strongest argument I've seen against using the new statblock is the lack of "show your work" information (and that's really only the AC and HD breakdown). But I think that's also easily addressed: it doesn't hurt anything to use a hybrid format that is essentially the new statblock plus those two pieces of missing data.I would be curious to see what Paizo's format looks like, as well. That might be an even better one to use (Statblock science is clearly still evolving).Here's where I am going with all of these ideas: my dream monster product is essentially an updated Monster Manual that takes into account the many innovations and advances made in monster book design over the last 7 years, particularly the emphasis on making it easier to run monsters out of the book.It doesn't seem like Wizards is going to release a dramatically revised MM before 4th edition, which is too bad. But it would be great to see a OGC product that does this. And if this dream product included some of the more useful and interesting open monsters outside of the core SRD -- say. the best  30 monsters pulled from d20 Modern, the epic and psionic SRDs, the Advanced Bestiary, Book of Fiends, and Tome of Horrors -- well, at that point we would have a book that would not only be the canonical open source for monsters, it would also rival the Monster Manual itself.</blockquote>