Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6390731" data-attributes="member: 2067">I think the 5e MM accomplishes what the designers set out to do. They made a deliberate choice to include a lot of lore and to link the monsters together in an effort to inspire people to use the creatures in play and to keep the monsters diverse and linked to deeper stories and plotlines. That was the intent, as far as I can tell. I think they succeeded on that.What the 5e MM is not is a world-neutral set of monster stats and plot ideas for DMs to use as they see fit. Or a book for encounter generation and story hooks. That's not the intent. I think some people wanted something more in that vein, and this MM doesn't do that, and doesn't TRY to do that. I like lore, but I don't like One True Story. The 5e MM presents One True Story for the monsters, and it bugs me to no end. Stuff like this "slave race" weirdness is much less useful to me than something like "rumored to have connections with the Efreeti and some claim to have seen them fighting Azers." Makes me want to write my own MM. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>