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<blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 7418331" data-attributes="member: 6801060"><p>And one further thing, concerning the drow preview - I really, really like how the drow will, after this book, have a nice set of variants that will run right up the CR scale, allowing for interesting and challenging foes in any tier of play (and even more so when you include drow-adjacent foes like driders and yochlol). One of the things that disappointed me a bit in VGtM was the lack of higher level variants for the featured creatures, especially for the orcs and hobgoblins, who really should have had some leader-types with CRs in the mid-teens or so. Even the yuan-ti and mind flayers were a bit disappointing here, with the yuan-ti anathema being almost shockingly under-powered compared previous editions, with the elder brain being mildly under-powered (both should have been CR 15+,&nbsp; in my opinion). Even the giants should have had some more variants - but I've dealt with that by creating my own, as can be found on this forum! Then again, perhaps we'll see yet another Appendix with NPC stat blocks in this book, but specializing in more high-level types (since that is an acknowledged focus of the book), which would allow the easy creation of the higher-level orc and hobgoblin foes that were absent in Volo's...</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Demetrios1453, post: 7418331, member: 6801060"] And one further thing, concerning the drow preview - I really, really like how the drow will, after this book, have a nice set of variants that will run right up the CR scale, allowing for interesting and challenging foes in any tier of play (and even more so when you include drow-adjacent foes like driders and yochlol). One of the things that disappointed me a bit in VGtM was the lack of higher level variants for the featured creatures, especially for the orcs and hobgoblins, who really should have had some leader-types with CRs in the mid-teens or so. Even the yuan-ti and mind flayers were a bit disappointing here, with the yuan-ti anathema being almost shockingly under-powered compared previous editions, with the elder brain being mildly under-powered (both should have been CR 15+, in my opinion). Even the giants should have had some more variants - but I've dealt with that by creating my own, as can be found on this forum! Then again, perhaps we'll see yet another Appendix with NPC stat blocks in this book, but specializing in more high-level types (since that is an acknowledged focus of the book), which would allow the easy creation of the higher-level orc and hobgoblin foes that were absent in Volo's... [/QUOTE]

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