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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aegeri" data-source="post: 5214550" data-attributes="member: 78116">This isn't new, two creatures that can dominate exist at level 4 and 6 and both are at-will [spoiler]Brain in a Broken Jar (4)Brain in a Jar (6)[/spoiler]So this isn't actually breaking any new ground. Neither is dominate at high levels. What is new is the dominate powers of the Astral Kraken and one other monster I forget right now. Both actually can order a PC (without expending) their highest level encounter power on another PC. Now that can be a bit of a shock.That's a hard question for me to answer, because I'm a crunch person but I do find the fluff they include useful. For example most of the time they focus on explaining what a creature does and adventure ideas (particularly for the cultists of the various elemental evils). So they're really making a case for "How can I use this monster" as opposed to descriptions like "It lives in a forest and poops tree bark" or whatever. This makes them pretty useful for generating ideas - some people though complain this fluff isn't actually really telling them things about the monster itself like the old MMs did. There is a lot more of it and one reason I like having the books is to tell what various monsters actually are. Determining what some of the more random monsters actually look like from a stat block isn't actually that easy. So I would recommend buying the book for the stat blocks, the art and yeah the fluff is good as well.But if the art and fluff isn't really a huge priority for you, I honestly don't think other than maybe some neat ideas for using a monster or some possible adventures you'll miss a lot.</blockquote>

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