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<blockquote data-quote="Aegeri" data-source="post: 5278811" data-attributes="member: 78116">No it shouldn't. The actual stat block should be the creatures stats and what it does in combat. As concise and to the point as it can be, to ensure that the DM knows what the creature can do and actually find it. Some solos and other monsters are already getting to the point where they are very complicated and long looking stat blocks. We don't need to extend this.The monsters write up, what is in the book should actually describe this but not the stat block (they have distinctly different jobs). The monster write up conversely shouldn't have stats in it - it should be fluff and description. One of the main ways Wizards has failed a bit here is frequently failing to provide an illustration or a decent description of some of the monsters. It can be extremely hard to work out what some monsters are supposed to look like based off the descriptions (or more often complete lack of a description and picture) in the books at times.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aegeri, post: 5278811, member: 78116"] No it shouldn't. The actual stat block should be the creatures stats and what it does in combat. As concise and to the point as it can be, to ensure that the DM knows what the creature can do and actually find it. Some solos and other monsters are already getting to the point where they are very complicated and long looking stat blocks. We don't need to [i]extend[/i] this. The monsters write up, what is in the book should actually describe this but not the stat block (they have distinctly different jobs). The monster write up conversely shouldn't have stats in it - it should be fluff and description. One of the main ways Wizards has failed a bit here is frequently failing to provide an illustration or a decent description of some of the monsters. It can be extremely hard to work out what some monsters are supposed to look like based off the descriptions (or more often complete lack of a description and picture) in the books at times. [/QUOTE]

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