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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 5236191" data-attributes="member: 11821">I'm perfectly fine with cutting down on the whole Monster-Manual-as-Discovery-Channel-Special excesses that characterized much of the 2e MMs...  And heck, even 1e to an extent.  Even now, looking back, I ask, "Why is this statted up again?" and think that such things as the Household Pets in Dark Sun belong more in flavor text than in monster manual.  Simply put - I don't want them gone.  I want them, but assigning stat block space to them seems ... wasteful.I don't need stats for something my players aren't interacting with in a mechanical way.  I don't need stats for what amounts to setting pieces.  I do think the animals described have a place in the setting, but putting them in the MM is .... weird .... in retrospect.-O</blockquote>