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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8634166" data-attributes="member: 7006">Yeah, but so what?&nbsp; What WotC wants and what you want as a DM have nothing to do with each other.&nbsp; I mean heck, if WotC decided to stop having any NPCs and creatures wield longswords throughout all their books, does that mean every DM out there would have to stop including longswords too?&nbsp; That they couldn't create their own NPCs that wielded longswords?&nbsp; Of course not.&nbsp; The exact same reason that DMs right now can continue to use caster statblocks from the original MM if they really need their monsters to have spell slots and be &quot;real spells&quot; from &quot;real spell lists&quot; so that they can be assured they are counterspellable.&nbsp; Or that they can just treat these spell-effect features in the new statblocks as spells like they pretty much are, and let players counter them.WotC and their books do not need to 100% agree with our gaming preferences.&nbsp; They don't have to, and they won't.&nbsp; Because every person's preferences are different so any book that is made will never be &quot;one size fits all&quot;.&nbsp; So if we just accept that as a a universal truth and then adjust the game as we individually need to so that things work the way we each want... we'd all be a lot happier and a lot better off.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8634166, member: 7006"] Yeah, but so what? What WotC wants and what you want as a DM have nothing to do with each other. I mean heck, if WotC decided to stop having any NPCs and creatures wield longswords throughout all their books, does that mean every DM out there would have to stop including longswords too? That they couldn't create their own NPCs that wielded longswords? Of course not. The exact same reason that DMs right now can continue to use caster statblocks from the original MM if they really need their monsters to have spell slots and be "real spells" from "real spell lists" so that they can be assured they are counterspellable. Or that they can just treat these spell-effect features in the new statblocks as spells like they pretty much are, and let players counter them. WotC and their books do not need to 100% agree with our gaming preferences. They don't have to, and they won't. Because every person's preferences are different so any book that is made will never be "one size fits all". So if we just accept that as a a universal truth and then adjust the game as we individually need to so that things work the way we each want... we'd all be a lot happier and a lot better off. [/QUOTE]

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