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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 3617801" data-attributes="member: 1288">Just got my own copy of this book, and all I can say is... Wow.While I didn't dislike it, and didn't have many of the objections that other people did, I felt that MM4 was not as strong as prior MMs.MM5 more than makes up for it. I think this may be one of the best, if not the best, of the series. A great many of the critters in here are both thematically and mechanically interesting, with some cool new abilities.But I thought the best part of it was the themed critters. The skull lords and associated undead, the tirbana, the elemental magi, and the mockery bug (shades of the Thing) are all enough to inspire entire adventures; and the section on Thoon is enough to build an entire campaign off of.MM5 is a perfect example of a design philosophy that I've been touting for years now: Specifically, that a D&D book needs not only to be mechanically solid, but inspirational and interesting to read. I don't just want tools, I want ideas and plot hooks to spur the imagination.This is the first monster book I've seen in a while that did that for me, and my biggest complaint is that I didn't get to contribute to it. <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>