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<blockquote data-quote="jasin" data-source="post: 3793629" data-attributes="member: 7531">This is the first piece of fluff that bothered be, but for different reasons. At the risk of using a worn-out overloaded phrase, the names of monsters sounded videogamey. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> In a video game, you need different labels for different monsters so (I guess) names like bonecrusher zombie, zombie hulk, hellsword cambion are OK.But I'm not sure I want names like these in the MM. I want people to think of zombies as zombies, because the zombie concept is cool enough in itself, rather than making them &quot;bonecrusher zombies&quot;, &quot;clawslasher zombies&quot; and &quot;zombie hulks&quot;. And if you write those names down in a rulebook, people will use those names as a default.But then, the 3E MM has stuff like celestial charger and frost giant jarl, which I thought were pretty cool. If the monsters mentioned are something along those lines, samples of what's possible with advancement rather than baseline creatures, it's all good.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jasin, post: 3793629, member: 7531"] This is the first piece of fluff that bothered be, but for different reasons. At the risk of using a worn-out overloaded phrase, the names of monsters sounded videogamey. :) In a video game, you need different labels for different monsters so (I guess) names like bonecrusher zombie, zombie hulk, hellsword cambion are OK. But I'm not sure I want names like these in the MM. I want people to think of zombies as zombies, because the zombie concept is cool enough in itself, rather than making them "bonecrusher zombies", "clawslasher zombies" and "zombie hulks". And if you write those names down in a rulebook, people will use those names as a default. But then, the 3E MM has stuff like celestial charger and frost giant jarl, which I thought were pretty cool. If the monsters mentioned are something along those lines, samples of what's possible with advancement rather than baseline creatures, it's all good. [/QUOTE]

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