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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shade" data-source="post: 3116658" data-attributes="member: 287">Some other observations on the book:- I really wish WotC would stick with an organization format.   If I go to look up a justice archon, I expect to find it under "archon, justice", for example.   This isn't a criticism solely on MMIV, as this has happened in many previous books.  At least the fang golem is where I'd expect to find it.- It's interesting to note that WotC has changed its stance on "fallen celestials".  At one time, a designer stated that the "fallen" template was cut from the Fiend Folio because they decided that a fallen celestial would simply become a comparable fiend.   In the justice archon entry, it specifically allows for an alignment change, with no powers lost.   I'd really like to see them decide on a standard for a shift in alignments for planar exemplar races.  For example, would a CN justice archon retain the Good subtype?   Should it lose aligned strike (good)?  - Why, in the Year of the Dragon, do we get no creatures of the dragon type, yet we get numerous drow and drow-related creatures?   I supposed MM V will be loaded with dragons.     <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> - Why the continued fascination with spiders and spider-like creatures?   We have SO many spiders...do we really need more variations?   I know drow sell books, but the MMIV already has a drow section.- The Lolth-touched template is so bare bones it could have been a sidebar.  Instead, it eats up another three pages of the book.- Sample encounters are fine; listing the EL for a solitary creature seems awfully redundant.- The dwarf ancestor makes more sense as a deathless than an outsider.- Only one new giant, and its a variant of an existing type (and still only Huge).  <sigh>  When will we some more truly gigantic giants?-  As always CE outsiders, why don't the windblades have the Chaotic and Evil subtypes (and thus aligned strike [chaotic, evil])?- Of the most underused (and oft-requested) monster types, we get 3 fey, 1 giant (not counting ogres with class levels), and 0 vermin (not counting one sample templated creature)I'll end on a few positives:- Kudos for including something from Pandemonium!   Now if only the Positive Energy Plane, Negative Energy Plane, Arcadia, Beastlands, and Bytopia would see some more populating.- I think the aligned strike, magic strike, and metal strike abilities are brilliant.  I'd love to see more simplification of such common abilities.   I die a little inside every time I see sneak attack spelled out in detail in a creature's description.   Certain abilities are so commonplace they belong in the glossary.  Kudos for a step in the right direction!</blockquote>

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