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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fba827" data-source="post: 5578949" data-attributes="member: 807">Just a general observation --I do COMPLETELY agree that more late paragon and epic tier monsters are needed.  However, I do not agree that they should be used in this book.  This book (according to both title and product description) is specifically for the Nentir Vale, and that is considered a generic starting area for heroes.Thus, being tied to this region does mean it will revisit some groups that have been discussed in previous adventures (since it's the same region/area), and it also means that tossing in epic tier monsters is not appropriate for the focus of this product (since the area is more so a starting area where having a roaming epic tier monster would just kill any would-be heroic tier adventurers just starting out).But if this were another Monster Vault that wasn't specific to Nentir Vale, yeah, I really do think it should get more spread in its monster levels.So it may be important to remember that this isn't just a new Monster Manual/Monster Vault book (aka generic), but rather this is specifically noted as being focused on Nentir Vale and that does bring certain limitations on what is and is not appropriate.As an aside, I just noticed that Amazon pushed the release of this down 1 week (previously 6/21 now says 6/28) -- not a huge deal, just an observation. Don't know if it's specific to just them or a more general thing.</blockquote>