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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 7936848" data-attributes="member: 6787503">I’ll agree that there’s no strong default in this regard, the operative word being can on p 342 of the MM. I was thinking more along the lines of p 282 of the DMG, however, where making adjustments to NPC stat blocks is given as an imperative:If you want to take an NPC stat block and adapt it for a specific monster race, apply the ability modifiers and add the features listed in the NPC Features table.Edit: Of course, this isn’t to say that such adaptation isn’t entirely voluntary on the part of the DM. Only that in the case that adaptation of an NPC stat block is considered desirable, as, IMO, in most cases it would be, the DMG at least is quite prescriptive about how to do it.</blockquote>