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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 2973450" data-attributes="member: 957">Me too.  I'd certainly be quite interested in a useable set of statblocks.I just don't see that, for me, this approach really makes them at all useable.When this issue first came to light one of the contributers pointed to the Ogre Barbarian 4 as precedent.  To me that just drove home how flawed this approach really is.I don't think of a stat block for a single Ogre Barbarian 4 as a source for Ogre Barbarian stats.  I also do not think of the MM as a source of customized stat blocks at all, even though there are quite a few scattered through it.  They are all very specific and to me the greatest value in them was just as go-bys as to what WotC had in mind for ways to advance creatures.But if I want an ogre barbarian for my game, I'm going to want whatever level fits right now, not whatever one level option WotC choose to provide me.  So when I want an ogre barbarian I think, I need to stat it up.  I do not think:  I wonder if the exact statblock I need just happens to be in the MM.  That is just not the type of resource the MM is and I do not even think of it that way.If I had a book with a bunch of ogre barbarians at various levels and maybe even various concepts, then I would certainly think of that as a resource immediately.  And when I need one, I would go there.  It never even crosses my mind to look at the MM that way.So a single example is worth far less than 1/10 the value of ten examples.The same goes with a single drow ninja 4.Make me a book full of stat blocks and I'm there.Make me a book full of new monsters and I'm there.Reduce the number of monsters in a monster book and replace it with single examples of advancements for pre-existing monsters and you have a case where the total is much less than the sum of its parts.</blockquote>

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