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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6278766" data-attributes="member: 2525">This is hilarious.  YOU advocated one true way, but saying nobody finds it useful.  You play it however the heck you want to play it - but the proper nouns are useful for some people, and don't harm you by being there if you're not going to use it.  How is that one true way?  Are you feeling forced to use it?  Is the sentence or two making the reference somehow tainting for you the entire rest of the paragraphs of descriptions?In no instance is the sum total of the description the proper noun reference.  It's usually a single sentence in a series of paragraphs describing the creature.  In zero cases that I have seen would a DM be left with no description at all if they ignored the proper noun reference.It increases it actually, because if there is an analogue in that other setting for the named proper noun (and there almost always is) then you have a reference point to start from that you wouldn't otherwise have.Everything? How on earth can you justify calling this everything, when it's such a very small part of monster descriptions?I do.  Others in this thread do.  We've explained why, and those reasons are not meaningful to you.  Fair enough.  But, quit pretending you've got some lock on all opinions on this topic by claiming nobody thinks different than you do on this topic (which you've claimed three times now).Four times now.</blockquote>