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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Belphanior" data-source="post: 4785606" data-attributes="member: 12401">I like fluff in the critter compendium, provided it's limited to setting-specific books. I like the Monsternomicon books for the Iron Kingdoms campaign setting, for example. As they're part of an established setting they're an important facet in fleshing it out.But default D&D only has an implied PoL setting. And the monsters only have an implied PoL backstory to them. Little bit of description, little bit of lore. And that's good enough for me. In fact, I'd be almost insulted if they gave much more fluff in the MM. It would be a waste of paper and my money. I make my own setting, thank you very much. When I play Eberron or the Realms, I'll take a look at their sphinxes. But until then the designers had better not waste pages on crap I'm going to have to weed out in the corebooks.</blockquote>