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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 9560144" data-attributes="member: 6915329">You claimed that SlyFlourish was "disparaging" D&D because they thought that the LU Menagerie looked better.You claimed it was wrong somehow to say anything bad about the D&D book because it wasn't out yet. I pointed out, repeatedly, that we can compare statblocks that have been released to already-existing statblocks from various D&D-alike games, or even those of previous editions of D&D. In fact, there have been several statblocks released, and I can compare them as well.For some reason, you decided to ignore that in favor of talking about layout.Yes. I am talking about statblocks, because the book is made up of statblocks. That is practically the only reason to buy a book on monsters. Unless you really like the art for some reason.(Plus, presumably, it will contain a table of contents and index, and list of monsters by CR, and also, possibly, things like guides on how to make monsters or a repeat of the conditions for ease of reference.)If the statblocks in one book are more interesting or useful, and have more information, than the statblocks in the other, then I am fully capable of extrapolating that I would find the first book to be more useful. It's not reading tea leaves, because that's making up stuff out of nothing. What I'm doing looking at all the available data and drawing a conclusion. It's actually rather insulting you liken that to BS.So far, the conclusion I've drawn on the 5.24 MM is "it looks nice, and I love the art, but I already have the same monsters in multiple formats, and in some of those cases, those monsters have more interesting abilities or have more useful info, so there's no point in buying it, even if I were switching to 5.24, which I'm not."</blockquote>

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