Indeed: "Yay."
One thing that might be inferred from this is that playing (select) monster races (something that's been in the the MM in 3.x and 4, is not going to be there now but will instead be in the DMG. hmmm. I hope it's somewhere! (I remember during the play test there was a poll on playable monster races).
Talk about burrying the lead!I just have one thing to say... MODRONS!!!
Talk about burrying the lead!
That said, it looks to me like they're not holding anything back. They're not saving anything for MMII. Which is something that I appreciate.
True.D&D has so many iconic monsters that I just don't think one Monster Manual can possibly be enough.
so... would this decision (and announcement) have anything at all to do with the Necromancer Games? I'm still waiting to see what WoTC's reaction to that is, they have been pretty quiet over the last week. Not sure whether that's due to deadlines of releases or something else...