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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deadguy" data-source="post: 2971075" data-attributes="member: 2480">To me Monster Manual IV is the first Monster manual to grow up and adapt the format to the 3rd edition rules. Time was when you needed a different challenge you created a new monster. That created the format for the MMs past...Now we have templates, classes, advancement and stat modification, all of which can tweak monsters without arbitrarily creating a new monster. There's still a niche for new monsters. But we also need to make better use of the monsters that already exist. And that's what MM IV caters to, in addition to the new monsters.Is MM IV perfect? No, the design needs some more tweaking. But I am glad that WotC has woken up to the value of providing a fuller toolbox for time-pressed DMs (one of the commonest complaints it seems). The content of a Monster manual is not a sacred cow people! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>