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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8950345" data-attributes="member: 82106">In any case, Monster Vault has considerably extended monster descriptions. Its Hag entry is considerably more verbose than the MM one, though by that point they had dropped the lore, encounters, and tactics sections. It covers most of what the 5e version talks about, though I am guessing the word count is slightly less (I could be wrong). In any case, a rough count says MV has 320 stat blocks, one per page on average (it is a smaller format book), vs the 352 pages of the 5e MM which contains roughly 500 stat blocks, and the 287 pages of the 4e MM containing about 475 stat blocks. My point is, 5e is using a much denser layout (smaller fonts basically) and bigger books, so yeah, they get in more, but I am not fond of reading them.So, keep 4e's fonts and such! Honestly, I like the visuals of 4e, though I am not hating 5e either exactly, but keep 4e's visuals, and since the monster is already out of the bag, if an updated MM did appear, I'd use the MV lore (and stat blocks of course, duh!). Honestly, I would cut out a lot of monsters in a rehash of 4e. I like having a lot of stat blocks to play with, but I think we could ditch a bunch of redundant and marginal ones without really missing much. I mean, Destrachan? really? lol.</blockquote>