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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 4100375" data-attributes="member: 1288">Guys, there's no conspiracy here. You want to know why the metallics aren't in MM1?Page count. Pure and simple.We know that the 4E MM presents ready-to-play versions of each dragon, at multiple age levels. That means we can expect roughly 2 to 4 pages per dragon.That means we're talking about 10 to 20 pages for the metallics alone. So what 10-20 pages get cut? What other monsters get put on the back burner?How many dragons does the game need in its first year? How many solo monsters?(BTW, this isn't just me spitballing. James Wyatt* as much as said, in one of his posts, that the metallics were cut because they just couldn't justify devoting that much page count to dragons in the first MM.)*(I think it was James. I suppose it could've been someone else.)Yeah, maybe once the first MM is out, you can find 20 pages of material you're not going to use. But is it the same 20 pages I'm not going to use? The same 20 pages Piratecat or Hong aren't going to use?I understand being disappointed the metallics aren't there, if you were looking forward to them, but there's no need to dig for ulterior motives.</blockquote>