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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 7702097" data-attributes="member: 6677017">So much this. While I love the lore and fluff of things like the Volo's Guide (I buy 2e books entirely for the fluff, even though I get no use out of the mechanics, because I still hold 2e as the gold standard for lore), I don't really struggle making up my own stories. I want it because I like it, and I can use it.On the other hand, I don't want to try to mess around with updating monsters. To do it right, I'd have to set up a comprehensive comparison of the monsters in the 5e MM to their previous edition versions, then look at non-updated monsters and extract a mechanical update that follows similar principles and looks like it's what WotC would have done if they had done it officially. I'm not going to be satisfied just refluffing something in the 5e MM, or taking old stats and doing quick translations to 5e numbers. That won't produce the results I'm going for. The 5e Foes book has some monsters that are coming out in Volo's. It will be interesting to compare them and see how well or poorly Necromancer Games did at converting them in the manner I'm talking about. I think the differences we see are going to be instructive.So while I want the lore, I need the updated stats for my ongoing settings.</blockquote>