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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6112761" data-attributes="member: 22424">I went for 'mixed bag', because I want both every monster to repeat the &quot;undead traits&quot; information and I want a central compendium of everything for when I'm creating my own monsters. Though the latter could be confined to an online tool; that would be fine.Simply put, I want the books to be as useful as possible to reference while running the game. That being the case, I want to look up one page and see everything that I need to know to run the monster, which means it should have full text on one page. (In fact, it also means that a single monster write-up could cover a two-page spread but should not cover the front and back of a single piece of paper.) Even more than that, I don't really want adventures referring me to the MM for the monsters it uses - they should ideally reprint everything relevant about the monster right there in the book (potentially with the subset of abilities it uses in the adventure and a reference to the MM for more information). This is especially the case when an encounter makes use of two different monsters, and so would require page flipping within the MM to run the encounter.Every time I have to look up a book while running the game, it's a slow-down in the game. A minor one, to be sure, but they do add up. If there are reasonable things that WotC can do to reduce the amount of page-flipping required, they should aim to do so.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6112761, member: 22424"] I went for 'mixed bag', because I want both every monster to repeat the "undead traits" information [i]and[/i] I want a central compendium of everything for when I'm creating my own monsters. Though the latter could be confined to an online tool; that would be fine. Simply put, I want the books to be as useful as possible to reference [i]while running the game[/i]. That being the case, I want to look up one page and see everything that I need to know to run the monster, which means it should have full text on one page. (In fact, it also means that a single monster write-up could cover a two-page spread but should [i]not[/i] cover the front and back of a single piece of paper.) Even more than that, I don't really want adventures referring me to the MM for the monsters it uses - they should ideally reprint everything relevant about the monster right there in the book (potentially with the subset of abilities it uses in the adventure and a reference to the MM for more information). This is especially the case when an encounter makes use of two different monsters, and so would require page flipping within the MM to run the encounter. Every time I have to look up a book while running the game, it's a slow-down in the game. A minor one, to be sure, but they do add up. If there are reasonable things that WotC can do to reduce the amount of page-flipping required, they should aim to do so. [/QUOTE]

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