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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TerraDave" data-source="post: 6278195" data-attributes="member: 22260">The story, what story? Thats the problem.In the many monster approach, you don't want every monster to have some huge elaborate back story. Its really not workable. At all. You may have some backstory for the dungeon or area as a whole, but you don't want a bunch of other stories on top of that. Take any of the many adventures now on D&D classic. The classic ones. The famous ones. You could add a twist here or there, but most monsters don't need much more then what they have.Now, lets take a very different approach. One much more coherent with a very sensible back story and hooks and plot elements. Created by the DM. Now the DM has created the story. He may get a few things from these MM stories, but again most of it is coming from him, and those stories are just superfluous or  can get in the way. There could be an episodic homebrew approach where the story is more useful, but even here I am skeptical. You want to do a session with a few monsters here, then another with a few there, you don't need name beings. You can link the jackalweres and lamia, but you don't need the demonlord.</blockquote>